Who is Konstantin Kisin and why does he have so many “hot takes”?

Who is Konstantin Kisin and why does he have so many “hot takes”?

Wrote about dodgy landlords again! But also how the tax payer funds them 🙃

Inspired by Tim Harwood and Nigel Farage of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social I am continuing my digital detox, only now catching up on HM speech I don’t agree with his classist statements about large screens - but at least we can agree on less screen time overall in 2026!

Ricky Gervais, giving millions to charity all whilst making us laugh. Bloody good rep!

Would you want to wipe someone’s bottom for a career? Really…? The inverse snobbery around Polanski’s comments on #questiontime are very telling.

Would you want to wipe someone’s bottom for a career? Really…? The inverse snobbery around Polanski’s comments on #questiontime are very telling.

Why do so many councils have security staff outside their buildings?

Why do so many councils have security staff outside their buildings?

This weekend at “Your” Party conference was a shit show However I feel the undemocratic purges ironically helped us win the arguments for collective leadership. So it’s time for pessimism of the intellect sure - but optimism of the will too #yourparty

It worked in Paris in 1871 since you mention it!

This weekend at “Your” Party conference was a shit show However I feel the undemocratic purges ironically helped us win the arguments for collective leadership. So it’s time for pessimism of the intellect sure - but optimism of the will too #yourparty

on why public service “professionals” tend to blame their “clients” for all their woes open.substack.com/pub/sunbeams...

I’ve made an insightful video breaking down the Tory coup threatening to bring down the BBC www.instagram.com/reel/DQ_c2cS...

As a Labour centrist I thought it was very important that I congratulate Zohran Mamdani

Some thoughts, musings if you will on the so called “post literate” society after spending a lot of time staring at a screen reading this about it open.substack.com/pub/sunbeams...

Some thoughts on the story about the autistic man that didn’t get offered the job at Waitrose

Some thoughts on the story about the autistic man that didn’t get offered the job at Waitrose

Some thoughts, musings if you will on the so called “post literate” society after spending a lot of time staring at a screen reading this about it open.substack.com/pub/sunbeams...

Wrote about awful rise of racism particularly from two particular wankers on the Tory benches

Wrote about awful rise of racism particularly from two particular wankers on the Tory benches

I cannot BELIEVE a labour home sec is finally using their coherence speech to chat immigration at long last also, sunbeamsoutofcucumbers.substack.com/p/the-bbc-ar...

Part 2 of 2! Why the discourse around homelessness is all wrong The former ministers tenants were never going to be made “homeless”, they are clearly eloquent people who can write emails

Part one: why I don’t think the homelessness Minister necessarily needed to resign

Part one: why I don’t think the homelessness Minister necessarily needed to resign

In defence of Red Len : tldr why working class folk like myself deserve nice things too

Hello It’s been a while as I’ve been away on a hiking holiday but I was delighted with the high court ruling on #brockwellpark and here’s some thoughts

Hello It’s been a while as I’ve been away on a hiking holiday but I was delighted with the high court ruling on #brockwellpark and here’s some thoughts

Great article on weird short term funding cycles and why they are very silly, from my esteemed colleagues @itsgroundswell.bsky.social

Anniversary of the Battle of Culloden today come join me as we go looking for the sight of the first skirmish of the Jacobite rebellion www.instagram.com/reel/DIgI9wY...

Whilst I’ve never been on benefits myself, coming from a family who always enjoyed working - as an empath I feel that I can connect with those that are. My latest post: www.instagram.com/reel/DH6mx5Y...

While the chief sec may have misspoke - as a charity support worker consultant I’m not sure seeing pip or other benefits as “pocket money” is the worst idea….

While the chief sec may have misspoke - as a charity support worker consultant I’m not sure seeing pip or other benefits as “pocket money” is the worst idea….

wonder how much it cost the taxpayer to send these out?

some thoughts on cost cutting for the beloved taxpayer among us! inc a suggestion that perhaps the taxpayer shouldn’t pay NHS clinicians far more to do a pip assessment, than to work on the NHS frontline 🥴

It’s easy to criticise welfare to work - so as a professional homeless consultant I share some tips on motivating people to go to the job centre also some reflections on some dms received, following my last vid re Torsten Bell

As a professional homeless consultant, I share some tips on how to get people off welfare and back into work

As a professional homeless consultant, I share some tips on how to get people off welfare and back into work

Very disappointed by the Torsten Bell discourse today

Very disappointed by the Torsten Bell discourse today

With rumoured changes to the pip (personal independence payment) criteria, as a frontline strategic worker I’m going to try to explain a bit about the pip assessment and how it works #DisabilityBenefits

It’s a great day - it seems I can finally post a minute long video on blue sky now! My take on the welfare reforms - The worst thing a government can do is have bad comms / bad pr - #BenefitsCuts #pip #disabilitybenefits

wrote more thoughts on public sector bureaucracy, plus a few unsolicited suggestions of where to save some money… But more on the radical idea that disabled people and people who have health conditions deserve a safety net too open.substack.com/pub/sunbeams...

You’ll allow me an ahistorical suggestion that Austerity 2.0 might not be the best move There is waste in the benefits system but I’m not convinced Keir Starmer knows how dysfunctional it is I wrote about this from my time on the coal face sunbeamsoutofcucumbers.substack.com/p/im-going-t...

I’ve written some thrilling thoughts about the benefits system, how bleeding opaque it can be, especially for disabled ppl to navigate and some possible savings that could be made (the latter, often only thing policy makers seem interested in) sunbeamsoutofcucumbers.substack.com/p/im-going-t...

as VAT comes in on private school fees, some thoughts from someone who benefited from going to one, and is thus more resolved than ever to abolish them shame on anyone who went to private school and isn’t vocal on Twitter about this youtube.com/shorts/VWClk...

what an epic finale tonight! am doing a tour of Barry this week over on the gram with snippets on here, come join the ride www.instagram.com/stories/dann... #gavinandstacey

where am I off to? a clue: it’s not an actual island

some musings on those who profit from the housing crisis; how this provides an incentive to prolong people’s suffering - and how the taxpayer funds it! Happy Christmas! sunbeamsoutofcucumbers.substack.com/p/the-mythic...

wrote about the strange mythical world of homelessness pathways in London, the people who directly profit from suffering, and how they are coincidentally the very same people evicting tenants via section 21 in Deptford sunbeamsoutofcucumbers.substack.com/p/the-mythic...