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Jess McCabe

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Deputy ed at Inside Housing

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Andy Hulme on Hyde’s housing revolution and how it plans to play a greater role in communities across the UK Hyde has acquired a number of companies in a bid to play a much bigger role in communities across the UK. Chief executive Andy Hulme discusses the bold new strategy.

Hyde housing association has gone through a massive growth spurt, and today got the go ahead for another merger. And it wants to do more. Inside Housing editor Martin Hilditch had a walk about with CEO Andy Hulme to find out more www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/andy...

05.03.2026 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no, I will stick with the fuzzy memory in that case

05.03.2026 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Girl in the Wind.' (1898) Akseli
Gallen-Kallela painted this work from a rocky promontory overlooking Lake Keitele in central Finland. It was a place that held a special significance for him and to which he had only just returned after several years of absence.

04.03.2026 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I understand not printing swear words but this is ridiculously silly

04.03.2026 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Energy independence is consistently one of the most powerful pro-Net Zero arguments among voters.

They back renewables over fossil fuel as the solution and it's not particularly close.

Bit baffled that Govt is not hammering this more loudly in light of Iran. Pushing at an open door.

04.03.2026 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

What an idiot

03.03.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

03.03.2026 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 947    πŸ” 436    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 60

Make it Elizabeth I investigates and I'm in

03.03.2026 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Disabled journalist has DWP Access to Work support slashed

Journalist Emily Davison, who is legally blind, has had her DWP Access to Work support slashed by 80%. She fears she could be forced to leave work

03.03.2026 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

I'm not sure anyone in UK politics has Mamdami level skills tbh

02.03.2026 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A neighbour brought around the Funday Times and it is an immediate hit. Kids love print and tbh they might have a point..

01.03.2026 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Weird that Reform is OK with Irish citizens voting but not commonwealth ones. Wonder what the difference could be?

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Female officers condemn failures on police abuse as β€˜insu... Women on the force find that, despite reforms, allegations of male colleagues’ sexual offences are still not being pursued

Five years ago this week, Sarah Everard was murdered by a serving police officer, sparking protests & promises of change

But now, woman officers abused by colleagues tell me reforms have victimised them more instead of protecting them

For @theobserveruk.bsky.social:

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

01.03.2026 08:57 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’ve been reading this and I’ve got to the 1800s, and for people who like planting trees, they really were enthusiastic about ripping out trees that were already there.

01.03.2026 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It looks like WKD or something to me. Amazingly you can buy this in supermarkets in the uk, I also don’t know why anyone wants this

27.02.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have to admit I recently had to do something that is left field of my normal work, from a literal zero knowledge starting point. it was able to give me at least a framework for where to begin, which was extremely useful

27.02.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the 90s alcopop trend begs to differ

27.02.2026 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The Trump family’s media group is weighing plans to spin off the Truth Social social media platform that is extensively used by Donald Trump, as it seeks to reposition itself as a major player in nuclear energy.

The Trump family’s media group is weighing plans to spin off the Truth Social social media platform that is extensively used by Donald Trump, as it seeks to reposition itself as a major player in nuclear energy.

You can have no idea where this sentence is going as.ft.com/r/4860d9c4-7...

27.02.2026 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 258    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 12

As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played

(Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)

27.02.2026 10:16 β€” πŸ‘ 390    πŸ” 162    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 51
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Just now learning how danish mortgages work, wild, and why don’t we do this?!

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27.02.2026 08:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wild subject line from NY on an interview with a heated rivalry fanfic writer

26.02.2026 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would watch this show

26.02.2026 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover: Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod. It has an orange border with text in black and yellowy orange and features a black and white photograph of two men embracing each other as they stand in a kitchen.

Book cover: Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod. It has an orange border with text in black and yellowy orange and features a black and white photograph of two men embracing each other as they stand in a kitchen.

Front cover of I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany by Samuel Clowes Huneke

Front cover of I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany by Samuel Clowes Huneke

A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

Book cover: My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond by Hugh Ryan. The bright yellow cover features a marble stature of two men suggestively wrestling, on top of which sits an unspooling mix tape.

Book cover: My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond by Hugh Ryan. The bright yellow cover features a marble stature of two men suggestively wrestling, on top of which sits an unspooling mix tape.

LGBTQ+ History Month (UK) is almost over, but #queerhistory is being made all year round! πŸŒˆπŸ“šπŸ—ƒοΈ

Here are just a few fab-looking books that will be published in the coming months by wonderful authors @grindrod.bsky.social, @schuneke.bsky.social, @tomhulme.bsky.social, @hughryan.bsky.social . . . 1/2

26.02.2026 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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SEND reforms: Families need more than government promises

Diane Johnson, chief executive of EnFold and mother to a child with special educational needs, writes about the government's SEND reforms

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Know just how she feels: The New Novel, 1877, by Winslow Homer. Born on this day in 1836.

24.02.2026 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Fun fact: video gaming as a sector is worth more to the UK economy every year than the music and film industries combined in GVA.

Maybe it's not your thing, cool, whatever, but you definitely still benefit from the fact other people enjoy it as much as they do and being a snob about it is passΓ© πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

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The history of LGBTQ+ homelessness: how DIVA reported it back in 1998, and the reality today In 1998, DIVA ran a feature on homelessness. Philippa Willitts finds out what we can learn from the article to help LGBTQ+ people experiencing homelessness in 2026.

For LGBTQ+ history month, @incurablehippie.bsky.social has done a great dive into a 1998 homelessness feature in DIVA. With thanks to the Mag Hags podcast for the inspiration: www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/the-...

24.02.2026 10:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sorry, but what in the actual blithering fuck?? "We will work to reduce the number of interventions in childbirth"???

24.02.2026 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 237    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 13

It definitely is worse if you get assigned a school and have no option to move your child

24.02.2026 10:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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SNJ also flagging the massive risk of the removal of choice of school for kids with additional needs.

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