Don’t forget the vast cost of administering it. This is just one of those issues where the more you know about it, the more it is clear why the system is set up the way it is.

What a graphic. @cnn.com #$NVDA #$TSLA #$AEO

Whoever did the labelling on this map was having a day

This book is gob smacking. Hard at times to believe it is non fiction.

I have gone down a rabbit hole about the lack of evidence for zones of regulation

The SEND reforms promise to increase early intervention by allowing schools access to "experts at hand". I've just seen that this would be 40 days per primary school, to cover all speech and language, educational psychologist time, occupational therapy, and any other specialists. Bananas

You can’t say the Dulwich diverter doesn’t know how to write a headline for its own specific readership

Umm..

This is so relatable. What am I going to say, love your book?? Then all the words would leave my brain. I’ve already gone through this when I met Kim Gordon at a party

One club we tried gave us this quote. how many days of this could you afford for a 5 week summer holiday? If you add in the fact we have another child, that would take the cost of holiday club to £258 per day

I’m so glad the Big Issue has reported on this, unfortunately we are in the same boat. The stories I can tell about our attempts to get holiday clubs for my nine year old. It’s basically impossible. apple.news/A6jPNOZBbRaC...

We have a great interview today with Plaid Cymru's first ever housing minister. Our chief reporter Eliza Parr sat down with Siân Gwenllian to try and pinpoint what if anything they will do differently to Labour, and how they will get things done in a minority www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/meet...

I love this, but was "Xerxes" really the best they could do for X

Good luck to this lady, sounds like she has a great job doing wigs for the west end how fun, and a nice flat but I did a double take when she visited Lewisham and it reminded her of Kingston apple.news/A_iOQghsASI-...

What a story.

Remember European summers in the past when the days would be hot and it would be chilly in the evening.

This is an eye opening case, where the social landlord has taken on shared ownership flats with a badly written lease that left it liable for the amenities like a gym and gardens only private owners could use. It then tried to pass the costs on to its shared owners, and has failed:

Russia is inflaming the debate on immigration in Britain as part of “increasing ambitions to disrupt our way of life”, counter-terror police and experts say It has directly and indirectly paid right-wing influencers to spread messages that align with its political goals inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...

An incredible investigation by the NYT here www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/w...

The most baffling example I’ve seen recently were the guys who fitted our wood floor recently, they did a brilliant job but the van has a wrap around of this awful ai wood floor and it’s got holes in and looks like shit?!

I've never understood the Sports bit. They're not sports cars, almost the opposite, & It's not like you can play tennis with them or something.

A surprise to me that London scores so poorly

Two headlines from today's papers

It was great to sit down with @jessmccabe.bsky.social @insidehousing.bsky.social to discuss our emergency package of measures to boost home building in London, council housing and our new City Hall Developer. www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/lond...

Diarmard Ward on the Greens' decision to partner with Aspire and judicial review the emergency housing measures in London over affordable, and their councillors' record of opposing affordable housing www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/gree...

London deputy mayor for housing @tomcopley.bsky.social says the government should consider a new version of Help to Buy www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/londons...

To maintain the lifestyle my family had in the 80s and 90s, I think you'd need top 1% incomes & probably family money. My mum, a single mum working for the council, had a 5 bed in Wandsworth. My dad, a lecturer, and his second wife, a psychiatrist, a Chiswick townhouse. Plus private school fees..

But arts and drama aren’t MANLY jobs like British Steel and Jaguar Land Rover. They can’t do a photoshoot in a hard hat at RADA

"I am the most physically and verbally attacked public figure or politician of modern times" is a quite a thing for Nigel Farage to say when two MPs have been murdered in the last decade, Stephen Timms was stabbed twice in the stomach in 2010 and there was a plot to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper

And as the author of a book on British terror plots of all ideologies since 2017, I can confirm that none of them targeted Farage Several plots targeted Downing Street or parliament, but the only individual politician I have seen come up repeatedly as a potential target for terrorists is Sadiq Khan

It might be clever, it might be completely foolish, but I'm just at the end of doing a DIY planning application (we need new windows, and live in a conservation area). I got to the end and there is a £91 service fee on top of the planning application fee?! Seemingly for .. filling it in online

Beveridge may have invented the welfare state but beverage is one of the worst words in the English language

Burnham should combine health and housing in one government department again, Clarion's chief executive Clare Miller argues in a comment piece for Inside Housing today. This recalls the earliest days of the health service www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/clar...

Vivid has 40,000 homes but builds more new homes than giant housing association Clarion. Thanks to Mike Shepherd who spared the time to catch me up on how they're achieving these numbers: www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/how-...

Just catching up with the ITV whistleblowing story from within a council SEND department and it’s so fucking infuriating, and also just confirms exactly what I expected from having dealt with them as a parent

I always thought that if the Cottrell story cut through it would hurt Farage because it's not just corruption, it's weird. The guy calls him "Daddy".

☕️ 🐦 because I’ve lost my 📖 half way through 🫠

An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

“when does a system under strain become a system that has simply decided not to comply?” Indeed

What a shocking statistic. The full report says that in Scotland the equivalent figure is £9,700 (apple.news/AOWonQKgtSV6...)

This is so awful for the investors concerned, but also it’s not the first of these stories and they expose the massive gap in education because City Am reports this investment was advertising zero risk and 17% return, or to put it another way, magic beans www.cityam.com/its-gone-how...

I read the New Yorker mountain story this morning and I keep thinking about it, and also the odd lens of being an English journalist reading an American write so freely about a court case, and the American being so blindsided by how differently the Austrian justice system works.

Are young people taking to social media to talk about or find construction jobs, and if so is that a reason we should pause the ban www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/the-...

I like the pigeon guy outside city hall

@davidbeech.bsky.social oh you deleted your post before I could dig this out -Andrea Dworkin said: “man” and “woman” are fictions, caricatures, cultural constructs. As models they are reductive, totalitarian, inappropriate to human becoming.

The number of books I manage to read in a month is almost always about half the number I add to my “to read” list, this is definitely not going to be a problem.

Farage’s proposal to evict foreign nationals from social housing is horrifying and racist. My colleague @peteapps.bsky.social has broken this down with an explainer about how social housing allocations really work, and how social housing is being mischaracterised open.substack.com/pub/peteapps...

This point about the futility of funnelling billions in housing benefit to private landlords is something we hear about all the time, interesting to see if it’s possible for Burnham do something about it www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/burnham...

I do feel we should be beyond the stage of starting to 'recognise this is antisemitism' as the OP put it, to be quite honest, look at what happened here.

I was going to post complaining about documents getting lost somehow in Onedrive, but the only Onedrive-related reaction gif on Bluesky has a more pro-Onedrive vibe than I was going for