Jess McCabe

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.

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this story isn’t going away

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

Tom Stoppard, proud Englishman—with a past The playwright never forgot his heritage, though it took him years to properly reflect on what brought him to Britain

Thank you, @katemaltby.bsky.social and @prospectmagazine.co.uk for this:
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The financial difficulties are real - check out these numbers from Highland council, which finished the most homes outside of London. But it is good to hear about councils genuinely doing something here. Many councils are now restarting projects that stalled due to inflation/the cost of finance

It also may surprise you that eight of the 10 councils building the most homes are in London. Here’s one of the recent developments I visited in Haringey, these are London affordable rent flats that are passivhaus certified >>

Biggest Council House Builders 2025 Which councils built the most homes in 2024-25? And how many did they complete? Jess McCabe reports.

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...

But one of the many fascinating things about Badenoch is that she seems unable to accept “incompetence” as the answer to the question “why did the government do that thing?” This refusal is all the more surprising when you remember that she was a minister in Boris Johnson’s government. She has seen incompetence up close. Perhaps that’s the problem: when you’ve lived through the technicolour widescreen shambles that was the last Conservative administration, Starmer’s dreary disasters simply can’t compare.

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

I mentioned this story to my partner who used to be a bookseller and he was immediately so cynical 😅🤣

I think this is actually true??

As you can imagine I’m posting this because someone mentioned Nixon but I don’t want to derail that topic with stealing dessert. And yet. It always feels relevant just in terms of how absolutely unhinged this behaviour was, and on camera, and yet this seems to have disappeared out of memory

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

Two screenshots designed in the style of Spotify Wrapped but they're presented as being a (nonexistent) Bluesky Wrapped Screenshot 1: You spent 738 posts on the following topics: 1. Dunking on the New York Times op-ed section 2. Talking about drama at New York Magazine 3. Weighing in on the New York City mayoral election Screenshot 2: Based on this, your most likely place to be located would be: New York, NY Instead, swipe to see where, based on geotagging, you actually live

Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal

Sidenote: is Naughty Bus the only self-published book on the national curriculum?

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??

For journalists, we're always interested in investigations and profiles, as well as stories about social landlords doing something new and significant. We pay 33p/word

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

Bedroom 4, smaller than the two bathrooms next to it, is really bringing Harry Potter’s cupboard under the stairs to life

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

Apparently it’s between 15 and 18??

Throw in a few home made face masks with bananas and yoghurt and they're golden

Ha! Still, we could have bought the kids a new iphone a month when they were toddlers, with the amount we spent on nursery and preschool

I might have to be quiz my nine year old on whether he has any ideas for a side hustle just in case 😅 But hard to imagine teenagers could possibly exceed the cost of London childcare.

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?