I’m so lucky to work with such talented people - wonderful to see three of our reporting team shortlisted in the BSMEs, and our excellent production team

Wow: "you can’t catch a virus” “Flu shots don’t prevent flu they give you the flu… it’s all big pharma lies and business”

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

Our finance-focused sister publication has done a deep dive into the gender pay gap numbers for housing associations, including some great tables (and one table I'm pretty sure I don't understand). The really depressing take away: an org gets out of care provision, the gap closes

interesting read on the track record of the Greens in office as.ft.com/r/ae3bcbc8-f...

I agree, and support the reduced rates, but also the fact that going to the zoo or the Tower of London costs this much now is completely insane

For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

I can’t believe I missed the news they caught the third alleged ambulance arsonist … when he turned up at the court appearance of the other two alleged arsonists www.thejc.com/news/uk/hatz...

How do you even react to this stuff anymore it’s bonkers

This obviously isn't very comforting given the weaponary at disposal but there's just not much point trying to analyse what he's saying because it doesn't make any sense.

A London landlord has been testing the safety of its high rises with fake fires - @cjayanetti.bsky.social went along for one of the tests. Super interesting findings here on how systems perform in close-to-real scenarios rather than usual tests www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/figh...

Why has my seven year old started saying “psyche!” and maniacally giggling as she runs away, the last time I heard that was probably about 1993

A few weeks ago, I found my mum’s masters dissertation in a box I was sorting out (about the history of Battersea park). She had written the whole draft in longhand, in perfect, fluid sentences. She was a landscape architect and artist, not a writer.

“There would be no point” and “there’s nothing to do” 😂🫠😂🫠 best stay home watching TikToks then To be clear, I’d be too scared to go

I remember the fuss and drama when the women’s library became part of LSE, good to see it is still going strong and hasn’t completely lost its identity as some feared st the time!

People do go on about Londoners, but our kids have had Easter egg deliveries from several of the neighbours on our little street, it’s very nice

Who among us hasn’t got a new mug without considering the sectarian balance of our whole mug collection

I gasped

I do think social media has only really jacked up a process that already happened. I remember once I was covering the tory party conference in the naughties - at a transport fringe session the audience literally booed when trains were mentioned

During the interview he was extremely ranty. In a podcast earlier in the year, he went off on one about Sadiq Khan, calling him a “pest” (no actual specific criticism just ranting about him) However, it’s also not his first brush with saying the wrong thing and getting in the nationals >>

I adore Howard’s End and I’m on another comfort re-read. This time I could only find the old copy from when I studied it in university, and honestly who is the idiot who made all these ridiculous callow notes in the margins 🫠

A must read by @peteapps.bsky.social breaking down yesterday’s news - Simon Dudley’s comments, exactly why they were so wrong, what it means for Reform, why building regulations for tall blocks are so important open.substack.com/pub/peteapps...

Props to @jessmccabe.bsky.social for the scoop that led to this

The PM now calling for Simon Dudley to be sacked

Simon Dudley’s comments this morning on LinkedIn following our interview.

Sadiq Khan now weighing in on Dudley’s “everyone dies in the end” comment on building regs.

And housing secretary Steve Reed is now calling for Farage to sack Dudley over his comments

Thanks to the i for picking up my interview with Reform’s housing spokesperson >> inews.co.uk/news/grenfel...

Just to prove the point about how mainstream the problem is getting.... bsky.app/profile/dani...

I’m not sure I can explain how much I loved Brandon Taylor’s new book. I would have given it 10 out of 5 if allowed

[If something is famous, you don't need to tell your reader that it's famous. And if it isn't famous, all your "famous"ing isn't going to make it so. Also, it's an incredibly dull adjective, exceeded in dullness only, perhaps, by "special."]

Child the younger has made a chicken

The Washington Post reporting on ditching the kindle like this…

Love to file an extremely controversial story that will be published when I’m on holiday, that won’t backfire at all

Shock your child by playing the original Macarena (“it’s not like that, they’re not doing it right”)

I’m nearly finished and what am I going to do then?? this is brilliant

Just tried to recycle a cardboard box to be told it’s “art in process” by my seven year old

As I happen to be passing en route to an interview - this is such a wonderful open door, it would be a shame to shut it

South London's Ledbury estate has had a rocky ride - it was already planned for renewal when serious safety issues were found and it had to be quickly evacuated. At last the redevelopment is properly underway, and our chief reporter has been on a tour with Southwark council leader Sarah King >

It’s now two years since I left a random comment in defence of Mr Collins on a TikTok video and I still get likes on it every day.

An arson attack on a Jewish ambulance service isn’t about Israel. It isn’t about Zionism, or American imperialism, or capitalism, or war in the Middle East. It’s about Jews. It’s about making British Jews feel fearful in their own homes. Just like Bondi Beach, and Heaton Park, all over again.

Ha, I wrote this such a long time ago, back when the world was young and we were all such sweet summer children.

Basically a handful of people will have to look at some solar panels, and the UK will have a huge domestically produced, clean energy boost. In the middle of an oil crisis which has shown, again, the risks of fossil fuel dependence.

This is really shocking, and the fact this has been carried out with a justification of “safeguarding” 👀👀👀

Interesting American perspective on the south bank centre’s brutalism, and how it’s really about the space around the building as much as the building itself. Did people really pack sandwiches to come into central because the food was so bad in the 1970s though?!! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

When you consider the adjacent flats are 16 storeys tall you really get an idea of the scale of the wind turbine foundation rigs being unloaded at Leith Docks

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Buy as much private rented housing as I could and set up a properly low cost landlord. At the average U.K. house price that would be ~285,000 units - more than double the size of the current largest housing association.

we're all going to be learning about energy markets & contracts like we learnt about derivatives in 2008 lol

Are things getting worse or are we just forgetting how bad the other decades were, IDK