Realistic but depressing piece in @theobserveruk.bsky.social by @kenanmalik.bsky.social. The question is - what can we do to mend the brokenness and restore our social fabric?

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

I'm joining thousands in Westminster on 9 July to meet my MP and stand for a fairer, healthier, safer future. 🌱💚 Join me! www.theclimatecoalition.org/act-now-chan... @theCCoalition #ActNowChangeForever

Hey @theguardian.com just had to pay the extra 20p @whsmithofficial.bsky.social to exchange my Saturday coupon for the paper. Hope that goes to you guys…

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

I lost a baby very early doors (5 weeks) while I was out of the country on holiday. It was an awful experience. I really needed some time to just have a break but felt I couldn't even ask as it "only a chemical".

This is long overdue and so welcome.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now

@tinabeattie.bsky.social testing the water over here - we’ll worth the read

I was there shaking a collection bucket from 7.30 - 9am. The least you can do is donate…

unherd.com/2024/11/a-fa... The straw that broke the farmers’ backs?
Worth reading this passionate explainer from James Rebanks…

NEW: The closure of youth clubs in the 2010s led to increased offending and worse GSCE results.

Teenagers entitled to free school meals were most affected.

Read @carmenvillaecon’s briefing: https://buff.ly/4fIiRK7

Read the working paper: https://buff.ly/3APnHq6

I’m a farmer – and I’m glad to see tax loopholes closing for cynical investor landowners.

Riverford founder Guy Singh-Watson on why the farming community is deluding itself about Rachel Reeves' changes to agricultural property relief from inheritance tax.

So what do people think of the 4B Movement? Echoes of 70s radical feminism for me…

Temporary accommodation has essentially become all but permanent for so many.

Nothing exemplifies our chronic, systemic short-termism more than our lack of social housing, so we now leech ££ to low quality private sector - insufficient & fragile as it is - to the detriment of families in need.

Here's the National Audit Office doing what it does best - keeping an eye on things everyone else forgets about. In today's report it looks at progress on the cleaning up of the Sellafield site, which is expected to take until 2125 (yes you read that correctly)
www.nao.org.uk/reports/deco...

Just one of those photos that has to be shared. Bodiam Castle, Sussex. (1/1)

Pittlesden, Tenterden, Kent - postwar council housing built by Tenterden Borough Council. The tile hung upper storeys reflect the local vernacular and the wooden shutters on a number of the houses are original.

A striking finding from my colleagues:

Every £1 spent on Sure Start saved approximately 19p in public spending on youth justice and children’s social care - on top of savings from educational improvements, reductions in special educational needs and reductions in hospitalisations.

Is AI supplanting human minute takers? This came up at my Tenants and Residents meeting last night. We wondered if we could use AI to do a volunteer role no one wants…

Record numbers of people being long-term unemployed due to health & disabilities has led to calls to apply stricter conditions on benefits

But my new @neweconomics.bsky.social paper argues that DWP could do much more to foster voluntary engagement with support...🧵 neweconomics.org/2024/08/bett...