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Jasmine Andersson
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Senior news reporter for Yahoo News UK with a focus on the welfare system. Sheffield dweller, accent enthusiast and unofficial Mr Blobby correspondent.
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So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK
December 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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The Cass Review is the worst kind of pseudoscience & has at least 13 peer-reviewed critiques of it (all ignored by mainstream media).

Streeting now wants a Cass Review for Autism, ADHD, etc.

I have characterised these as “contrived authority” strategies (referring to the work of Max Weber)

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Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
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Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
What a sad departure from when I interviewed Petra, the first transgender WI woman to star on the magazine's front cover, just four years ago.

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December 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Oh no
December 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Waking up every morning hoping my cat hasn't drunk my water
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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For the next talk of the day, Jasmine Andersson speaks about claims that accents like the Cockney accent are dying out.
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Exclusive: Data shared with Yahoo News has revealed that waits for Access to Work have more than doubled in the last 18 months.

BBC presenter Mark Lane is just one grant recipient who will be six months out of pocket due to delays, and also subject to an £18k cut:

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Hidden DWP payment delays are costing people their jobs: 'It's like they just don't care'
Exclusive: Wait times for Access to Work have more than doubled in the last 18 months
uk.news.yahoo.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Exclusive: Data shared with Yahoo News has revealed that waits for Access to Work have more than doubled in the last 18 months.

BBC presenter Mark Lane is just one grant recipient who will be six months out of pocket due to delays, and also subject to an £18k cut:

uk.news.yahoo.com/evidence-del...
Hidden DWP payment delays are costing people their jobs: 'It's like they just don't care'
Exclusive: Wait times for Access to Work have more than doubled in the last 18 months
uk.news.yahoo.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
My year has been made
Lots to enjoy with the new Adrian Mole adaptation announcement, which is coming from the BBC"

- David Nicholls is adapting it.
- Caitlin and Caroline Moran, Jack Rooke, Dillon Mapletoft and Oliver Taylor will also be writing for it.
- It will consist of ten 30 minute episodes.
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Deep breath, once more for those at the back, seeking asylum is not illegal. No matter route used, which considering Labour has closed pretty much all the last remaining alternatives means irregular ones.
Anti-immigration sentiments are stoked by politicians like Mahmood, not people seeking safety.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Very interesting crowdfunder on reinvigorating social clubs for the 21st century:

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/21st-centu...
21st Century Social Clubs
We are rebuilding Britain’s social club movement for a new generation. Support us and be part of it!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I have a new housemate! Meet Ziggy the cat
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The Access to Work scheme that keeps thousands of people in employment is being “cut by stealth".

Aga, a deaf woman who has been in distress since losing her interpreter has had her payments reinstated after intervention from Yahoo. How many more cases are there?

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'It makes no sense': The DWP payment being quietly cut for disabled people - Yahoo News UK
Disabled workers have told Yahoo News that their grants to stay in work have been cut off in the last year - sometimes without explanation.
uk.news.yahoo.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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The newspapers attacking her don’t have an ounce of her courage. Megha’s responsible for some of the best reporting on gender rights we have. Standing with her in sisterhood and solidarity.
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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The attacks on my friend @meghamohan.bsky.social are awful. This is a journalist who has dedicated her career to telling ignored and forgotten stories about women in the global south - from lesbians in Burundi and Chile, to girls fighting child marriage in Malawi & teens in prison in Palestine.
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story.

Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us.

We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.
“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.”

Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners?

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
She has no limits
November 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Inbox— next cover of the New Yorker: “Mayor Mamdani,” by Edel Rodriguez
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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What an absolute hero Samir Zitouni is - doubtless he saved lives that day

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Train hero who saved passengers during attack named
The rail worker credited with saving multiple lives is named as Samir Zitouni.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Oh no
November 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been branded "unacceptable" after leaving disabled people up to a year to claim critical PIP benefits.

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'Dreadful' DWP delays leaving PIP claimants waiting a year are 'unacceptable', says MP
Hundreds of thousands of disabled people who claim PIP experience a delay in getting their application for benefits payment approved.
uk.news.yahoo.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
‘No more children are going to die like you’: how Sheffield mother kept her promise to boys killed by father 11 years ago

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘No more children are going to die like you’: how Sheffield mother kept her promise to boys killed by father 11 years ago
Claire Throssell has been central to the campaign to repeal parental contact laws following the deaths of her two sons at the hands of their father in 2014
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM