Jess McCabe

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

A neighbour brought around the Funday Times and it is an immediate hit. Kids love print and tbh they might have a point..

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

Female officers condemn failures on police abuse as ‘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:

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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.

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

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

the 90s alcopop trend begs to differ

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...

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)

Just now learning how danish mortgages work, wild, and why don’t we do this?!

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Wild subject line from NY on an interview with a heated rivalry fanfic writer

I would watch this show

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

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.

LGBTQ+ History Month (UK) is almost over, but #queerhistory is being made all year round! 🌈📚🗃️

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

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

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

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 passé 🤷‍♀️

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-...

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

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

SNJ also flagging the massive risk of the removal of choice of school for kids with additional needs.

Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

A really important breakdown. I share the concerns set out here, particularly about accountability and stripping rights from our kids.

"Reform want you sacked and evicted" should fit nicely on a leaflet.

Also we are currently researching what school might be suitable for my son, which involves visiting them, having long conversations with the sencos, considering whether it is a good fit. That will be gone as an option, with a shortlist drawn up by a council already proven indifferent at best

So yes that does sound like under this proposal, I would have less choice for my son than my daughter

My autistic son’s first primary school turned out to be terrible - he came home from year 2 with empty books.
He has an EHCP and we had the right to switch him to another primary.

Well when my neurotypical daughter comes to chose secondaries we will put down a list of six, the council won’t give us a list. And if we’re not happy with the one we get we can go on a waiting list to change… and if it doesn’t work out we can transfer her to another school without too much fuss

Am I interpreting this correctly - this will leave parents of children with SEND with less choice over the school our kids go to than those without additional needs?

I can’t imagine the school taking a similar approach if a neurotypical child stopped working for four weeks