🍿 www.vulture.com/article/book...

I’m absolutely fascinated by the first personality type here in the Telegraph, “The uncle who insists on sharing his outdated views“. Where’s he reading those then apple.news/AsfJH-fOsSbO...

I’m not anti Matt Damon he just needs to be in a Matt Damon film

Matt Damon strapped to some kind of CGI sheep then Matt Damon blinding CGI polythemus

I for one can’t wait for Matt Damon’s the Odyssey

This is incredible, a tapestry by Frida Hansen norwegiantextileletter.com/sorover/

The women in this 1964 photo of Beatles fans (yes, that's what they used) could not get a credit card at Bank of America without their husband or father cosigning. So, no. The answer, CBS and Bank of America, is no.

We have a majorly important piece by @peteapps.bsky.social today about the risk of scaffolding fires in the UK, with fresh revelations about the Spectrum fire in Dagenham last year >> www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/from...

What is the gap between, "this sounds like a good idea answering a poll question" and "how people would react in reality" because...

I actually loved the book this is based on 🐑

Here's a story.

Incredible quote/moment www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

I’ve gone down a rabbit hole of medieval graffiti carved into the walls of churches and cathedrals

This is fab. Let’s hope we stay in it, our kids need more opportunities not less www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Jane Austen top three: 1) persuasion 2) joint ranking for Emma, sense and sensibility and Mansfield park 3) pride and prejudice

Thanks to my aunt who sent me 10 separate Jane Austen bbc sound programmes to watch today, the 250th birthday of our queen Jane Austen

A really important piece by Nimco - saying something I honestly can’t believe needs stating www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025...

Stories on the left, insta grid on the right. The dogs are Reels.

How will Cambridge become a net zero council in the next four years? Nice piece tackling an important question, given it's not the only council that declared climate emergencies and are now staring down a target to drastically cut CO2 by the same year: www.insidehousing.co.uk/cities-encyc...

I wrote this, a long analysis of a single line of Shakespeare and what it’s doing. How good writing is an ethical practice. And my continuing attempts to work out what it is that I’m spotting when I look at a piece of text and go “oh that was written by AI.” open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

Elif’s friends and family opening up their christmas presents like

Exciting Sylvia Townsend Warner news - definitely a writer that deserves recognition

A fab write up by our sister publication today on one of the new towns that has some celebrity naysayers living.insidehousing.co.uk/analysis/mee...

I read so many good books this year, but one of the most surprising, enjoyable, confounding was the Blessing by Nancy Mitford. It was adapted to film, and somewhat reads like that was always the intent, but sadly it seems like it was poorly done. The sensibility is of its era (1951) but surprising

An essential and sobering report on homicides and suicides where domestic abuse and housing come into play, based on detailed analysis of 75 domestic homicide reviews by @kathyswinds.bsky.social www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/dome...

On the one hand, I’ve seen Zarah Sultana with my own eyes. On the other, everything else increasingly suggests she can’t possibly be a real person.

Eoin Clarke has handily put together a list of 100 Green policies and it’s pretty astounding anyone can type all these out and not work out the economic collapse they would bring on

Another day, another construction site - in just over a year this will be flats with a great view over the Thames

I just saw that Sylvia Townshend Warner was born on this day in 1893, and this year I read her for the first time - the fantastic and challenging Summer Will Show, and witch story Lolly Willows Both very much worth a read in my view

More on Zak Polanski, I know lots of people are fans, but this is genuinely worth a read to learn about why his ideas are causing concern. www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consum...

this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

All I want is to know who does the PR for axolotls

Thank you, @katemaltby.bsky.social and @prospectmagazine.co.uk for this: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/the-...

Meet the councils who are building homes again - the numbers are up more than 10% in one year, despite all the bad news recently about how difficult it is. www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/bigg...

I do sometimes wonder if I'm losing my mind. thecritic.co.uk/full...

I think this is actually true??

As soon as anyone mentions Nixon, this story pops into my head. Not Nixon, watergate, it’s Nixon, dessert stealer:

Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal

Solidarity with all the other parents whipping up christmas production costumes at short notice, but please don't buy anything! Just use your wits and talents and endless time and resources! Our assignment which includes Naughty Bus themed headgear or "polar bear ears".

Did we know there are poly pockets for xennial grown ups??

We've published our editorial calendar for 2026, and you can find it here: www.insidehousing.co.uk/ih-informati... These themes will guide what we're commissioning next year, but obviously we're always interested in stories for our core audience of social housing professionals.

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

Preferred the Britney version tbf

The single “national conversation on SEND” event in London has sold out

This is a wonderful thread. Scholarship, creativity, a portrait of a generation.

Can it be true that teenagers are more expensive than babies and toddlers? I am not prepared

Surely this is all small beer in comparison to the question of whether, for a short period before the budget, the govt had allowed the impression to be created that the budget measures would be different from the ones that everyone would soon see and be subject to?

nothing to see here...

I regret to say that now Inside Housing is online only, the temptation to make every story roughly the length of a New Yorker article is extraordinarily high