strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news
2019 re-election throwback 🗳️
I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing
🚨 New briefing out today!
Our latest analysis looks at the challenges faced by renters in the Private Rented Sector (PRS)
We've identified a few distinct but connected ways of understanding the affordability pressures that private renters are facing 🔽
Plot twist: I have 0 feelings about the new spotty band.
Yes, I'm surprised it's already dry enough to go though!
Oh no! How!? Presume bbqs
Thanks, I'll have a look around.
I got sunburned!
A smashing first Big Walk of the year yesterday, up on sunny Marsden @nationaltrust.org.uk
there was a teeny weeny storm for two and a half days this year
Claude is down :/ so I’m just running my sink
Ahhh hi Doodle! This is Bonnie, 2yo Deerhound lurcher who loves wind and hates cats.
Ministry of Defence 05 APRIL 2026 • Overnight, RAF Regiment gunners, operating in a high threat area, successfully downed multiple Iranian drones. • UK Typhoons and F-35 jets, supported by Voyager and Royal Navy Merlin and Wildcat helicopters, have continued their defensive missions over the Eastern Mediterranean, Jordan, Bahrain and UAE. • Force protection measures in the region continue to be at the highest levels - ensuring UK personnel are as safe as possible. We continue to work closely in coordination with allies.
A cool update on the war we aren’t fighting and aren’t involved in
Yesterday: The Storm Enjoyer
It’s pretty interesting to compare Easter messages from political leaders and then consider which ones the media treats as being out of the mainstream or dangerous
23 years ago today, the Sunday Times (30 March 2003) featured the great Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes).
#StephinMerritt @themagfields.bsky.social #MagneticFields #FutureBibleHeroes @robertrotifer.bsky.social
You can read my full piece here, visiting Reform HQ; Simon Dudley’s background in housing, his views on who should be allocated social housing, competing “build baby build” hats, how the social housing sector is trying to influence Reform, and more
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/excl...
🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf.
Full story: www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...
For Trans Day of Visibility 2026 we are selling a LIMITED EDITION t-shirt. All proceeds to support Good Law Project's work as we fight to defend trans rights.
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Educators are united in opposing the new year 8 reading test. The government’s response to literacy inequality is more and more testing.
When has an exam ever made you excited to read?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckge1mx7lr...
Apart from how disgusting this threat is - we should be asking what funding he's got lined up to replace the unions and what that looks like as a future policy offer? The NHS is the one topic Labour might still convince voters to back them on - guess Starmer wants to correct that misapprehension.
Map of Britain made from early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps. It includes pins which link to digitised documents and links to a timeline.
New 1926 General Strike map online!
Using early 20th century Ordnance Survey maps, the online resource shows strike events (through archive sources) in their contemporary landscape.
Explore the map, digitised sources and more at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
Hello, yes I was, a couple of times! That was such a fab account. I wonder if it would work nowadays.
I've lost track of what cohort of whomst from the last 20 years has ended up on this website, but remember Strangeways in Leeds? 25 year anniversary night later this month!
www.leftbankleeds.org.uk/events/stran...
An excellent outcome for @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social following their RSH inspection - for such a large urban council landlord to achieve C2 is a huge testament to the incredible work by dedicated officers and teams over many years. Proud of my colleagues 🙌
news.leeds.gov.uk/news/inspect...
'Good thing' (on the y-axis), improving steadily from 1930, especially from 1945, then declining sharply from 1979, improving again from 1997, then falling through the fucking floor from 2010 onwards, thanks to George Osborne and associated psychopaths
Every UK graph
