Jess McCabe

What is negative net migration going to do to the economy 😐

The bit about putting a picture of your pet in the egg 🥚 👁️

Workers clearing the slums of London’s Sidney Street & Clarendon Street c.1931 mark the last stages of their work by burning effigies of the vermin that had infested the old buildings. There’s something very powerful & ancient & Fortean about this & someone has surely spun a horror tale out of it.

Hereditary peer Lord Mancroft: ‘They don’t care about fox hunting. It’s about us’ [FREE TO READ] The Conservative politician and former master of hounds on House of Lords reform, the pros and cons of privilege — and his numerous tattoos

I don't really know how to describe this, but it was great fun as.ft.com/r/8f9937cc-9...

Andy Hulme on Hyde’s housing revolution and how it plans to play a greater role in communities across the UK Hyde has acquired a number of companies in a bid to play a much bigger role in communities across the UK. Chief executive Andy Hulme discusses the bold new strategy.

Hyde housing association has gone through a massive growth spurt, and today got the go ahead for another merger. And it wants to do more. Inside Housing editor Martin Hilditch had a walk about with CEO Andy Hulme to find out more www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/andy...

Oh no, I will stick with the fuzzy memory in that case

'Girl in the Wind.' (1898) Akseli
Gallen-Kallela painted this work from a rocky promontory overlooking Lake Keitele in central Finland. It was a place that held a special significance for him and to which he had only just returned after several years of absence.

I understand not printing swear words but this is ridiculously silly

Energy independence is consistently one of the most powerful pro-Net Zero arguments among voters.

They back renewables over fossil fuel as the solution and it's not particularly close.

Bit baffled that Govt is not hammering this more loudly in light of Iran. Pushing at an open door.

What an idiot

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

Make it Elizabeth I investigates and I'm in

Disabled journalist has DWP Access to Work support slashed

Journalist Emily Davison, who is legally blind, has had her DWP Access to Work support slashed by 80%. She fears she could be forced to leave work

I'm not sure anyone in UK politics has Mamdami level skills tbh

A neighbour brought around the Funday Times and it is an immediate hit. Kids love print and tbh they might have a point..

Weird that Reform is OK with Irish citizens voting but not commonwealth ones. Wonder what the difference could be?

Female officers condemn failures on police abuse as ‘insu... Women on the force find that, despite reforms, allegations of male colleagues’ sexual offences are still not being pursued

Five years ago this week, Sarah Everard was murdered by a serving police officer, sparking protests & promises of change

But now, woman officers abused by colleagues tell me reforms have victimised them more instead of protecting them

For @theobserveruk.bsky.social:

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I’ve been reading this and I’ve got to the 1800s, and for people who like planting trees, they really were enthusiastic about ripping out trees that were already there.

It looks like WKD or something to me. Amazingly you can buy this in supermarkets in the uk, I also don’t know why anyone wants this

I have to admit I recently had to do something that is left field of my normal work, from a literal zero knowledge starting point. it was able to give me at least a framework for where to begin, which was extremely useful

the 90s alcopop trend begs to differ

The Trump family’s media group is weighing plans to spin off the Truth Social social media platform that is extensively used by Donald Trump, as it seeks to reposition itself as a major player in nuclear energy.

You can have no idea where this sentence is going as.ft.com/r/4860d9c4-7...

As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played

(Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)

Just now learning how danish mortgages work, wild, and why don’t we do this?!

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Wild subject line from NY on an interview with a heated rivalry fanfic writer

I would watch this show

Book cover: Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod. It has an orange border with text in black and yellowy orange and features a black and white photograph of two men embracing each other as they stand in a kitchen.

Front cover of I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany by Samuel Clowes Huneke

A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

Book cover: My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond by Hugh Ryan. The bright yellow cover features a marble stature of two men suggestively wrestling, on top of which sits an unspooling mix tape.

LGBTQ+ History Month (UK) is almost over, but #queerhistory is being made all year round! 🌈📚🗃️

Here are just a few fab-looking books that will be published in the coming months by wonderful authors @grindrod.bsky.social, @schuneke.bsky.social, @tomhulme.bsky.social, @hughryan.bsky.social . . . 1/2

SEND reforms: Families need more than government promises

Diane Johnson, chief executive of EnFold and mother to a child with special educational needs, writes about the government's SEND reforms

Know just how she feels: The New Novel, 1877, by Winslow Homer. Born on this day in 1836.

Fun fact: video gaming as a sector is worth more to the UK economy every year than the music and film industries combined in GVA.

Maybe it's not your thing, cool, whatever, but you definitely still benefit from the fact other people enjoy it as much as they do and being a snob about it is passé 🤷‍♀️