Chaminda Jayanetti
@cjayanetti.bsky.social
Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
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How falling school rolls are not just London's crisis
Declining childbirth rates are hitting school demographics as the issue spreads across England
schoolsweek.co.uk
Falls in the number of pupils have been hitting schools in London for a number of years - but now the problem is reaching beyond the capital.
It's a story of birthrates, housing, funding and disruption.
By me, for @schoolsweek.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/how-falling-...
It's a story of birthrates, housing, funding and disruption.
By me, for @schoolsweek.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/how-falling-...
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Support for the Greens is highest among the youngest voters, while older Britons largely favour the Conservatives and Reform UK
18-24 year olds
Green: 37%
Labour: 21%
Lib Dem: 18%
Conservative: 10%
Reform UK: 9%
70+ year olds
Reform UK: 33%
Conservative: 32%
Lib Dem: 14%
Labour: 11%
Green: 5%
18-24 year olds
Green: 37%
Labour: 21%
Lib Dem: 18%
Conservative: 10%
Reform UK: 9%
70+ year olds
Reform UK: 33%
Conservative: 32%
Lib Dem: 14%
Labour: 11%
Green: 5%
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Support for the Greens is highest among the youngest voters, while older Britons largely favour the Conservatives and Reform UK
18-24 year olds
Green: 37%
Labour: 21%
Lib Dem: 18%
Conservative: 10%
Reform UK: 9%
70+ year olds
Reform UK: 33%
Conservative: 32%
Lib Dem: 14%
Labour: 11%
Green: 5%
18-24 year olds
Green: 37%
Labour: 21%
Lib Dem: 18%
Conservative: 10%
Reform UK: 9%
70+ year olds
Reform UK: 33%
Conservative: 32%
Lib Dem: 14%
Labour: 11%
Green: 5%
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And this is a choice. Parliament (and in practice Labour) could adopt rules capping/banning second jobs and adopting a modern gifts/hospitality policy (that sometimes says "don't"). Farage is a massive outlier in scale, but is protected by the failure to set a standard.
January 21, 2026 at 9:09 AM
And this is a choice. Parliament (and in practice Labour) could adopt rules capping/banning second jobs and adopting a modern gifts/hospitality policy (that sometimes says "don't"). Farage is a massive outlier in scale, but is protected by the failure to set a standard.
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how advanced is your nation's sinophobia? very? extremely? you are like baby, we are inventing sinophobia the likes of which cannot be dreamt of
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
The Chinese restaurants surrounding our most sensitive military bases
The Daily Mail can reveal a bizarre anomaly in the distribution of Chinese restaurants across the country.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 7:28 AM
how advanced is your nation's sinophobia? very? extremely? you are like baby, we are inventing sinophobia the likes of which cannot be dreamt of
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Weird to recall what a bombshell Biden’s fumbling debate performance was and now it’s like, ah yes, the president is demented in public every week, what can you do?
January 20, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Weird to recall what a bombshell Biden’s fumbling debate performance was and now it’s like, ah yes, the president is demented in public every week, what can you do?
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was briefly so excited reading this until I realised he meant Davos
January 20, 2026 at 8:11 PM
was briefly so excited reading this until I realised he meant Davos
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I like how the "whisper it quietly" formulation has become a code for "I know this isn't true but I need to fill this space".
January 20, 2026 at 1:50 PM
I like how the "whisper it quietly" formulation has become a code for "I know this isn't true but I need to fill this space".
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Polanski says countries which neighbour Russia (Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania) "Have called for a European security alliance because they can see NATO isn't working". I can find no record of this. Whereas I can find record of each government saying the total opposite
January 20, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Polanski says countries which neighbour Russia (Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania) "Have called for a European security alliance because they can see NATO isn't working". I can find no record of this. Whereas I can find record of each government saying the total opposite
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Anyway. In 2024-5, over £15bn of interest was applied to student loans. Repayments totalled just £5bn.
And now those young people are coming into their professional prime with what is in essence a bespoke additional tax. And people are panicking. Finally.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
And now those young people are coming into their professional prime with what is in essence a bespoke additional tax. And people are panicking. Finally.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Britain's youth are living in Nick Clegg's shadow
All except the richest graduates since 2012 face a bespoke additional tax. No wonder they're radicalised
www.newstatesman.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Anyway. In 2024-5, over £15bn of interest was applied to student loans. Repayments totalled just £5bn.
And now those young people are coming into their professional prime with what is in essence a bespoke additional tax. And people are panicking. Finally.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
And now those young people are coming into their professional prime with what is in essence a bespoke additional tax. And people are panicking. Finally.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
only one way to find out 💥
People need to stop posting that myth about Trident being unusable without a US say so. It's literally just not true.
January 20, 2026 at 11:29 AM
only one way to find out 💥
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One, tho only one, strand of all our recent strife has its roots in this mix of performative Krusty the Klown stupidity. It's rooted in Late Capitalist repartee, the extreme wealth of the elites, the nihilism of 'top' educational institutions and the performative irony of our culture. (2/2)
January 19, 2026 at 8:24 PM
One, tho only one, strand of all our recent strife has its roots in this mix of performative Krusty the Klown stupidity. It's rooted in Late Capitalist repartee, the extreme wealth of the elites, the nihilism of 'top' educational institutions and the performative irony of our culture. (2/2)
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No point putting that ridiculous Dan Hannan quote up. Everyone - including the man himself - knows that he's a fraud and has always been a fraud. His beclownery is just one instance of a general phenomenon: 'I can talk all this utter rubbish and I'll get richer and richer and fail upwards'. (1/2)
January 19, 2026 at 8:19 PM
No point putting that ridiculous Dan Hannan quote up. Everyone - including the man himself - knows that he's a fraud and has always been a fraud. His beclownery is just one instance of a general phenomenon: 'I can talk all this utter rubbish and I'll get richer and richer and fail upwards'. (1/2)
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Every single thing the Right spewed on Trump should be rammed back down their throats forever.
news.sky.com/story/boris-...
news.sky.com/story/boris-...
Boris Johnson claims the world would be 'more stable' under Donald Trump
The former prime minister mocked the "global wokerati" for "trembling so violently" at the idea of Trump returning to the White House after he won 51% of the vote at the Iowa caucus on Monday.
news.sky.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Every single thing the Right spewed on Trump should be rammed back down their throats forever.
news.sky.com/story/boris-...
news.sky.com/story/boris-...
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We didn’t listen to you because we found you annoying and liked feeling like rebels please give us grace. Yeah not yet guys.
January 19, 2026 at 8:52 PM
We didn’t listen to you because we found you annoying and liked feeling like rebels please give us grace. Yeah not yet guys.
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This Europa League match on Thursday sounds like it’s going to be the friendliest in history.
January 19, 2026 at 8:55 PM
This Europa League match on Thursday sounds like it’s going to be the friendliest in history.
It's Nuuklear War!
January 19, 2026 at 1:43 PM
It's Nuuklear War!
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The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
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Omg. Iran killed 16,500 protesters and injured 330,000 in two days.
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests
www.thetimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Omg. Iran killed 16,500 protesters and injured 330,000 in two days.
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Nine years ago a Twitter user was sending poetry to Sadiq Khan about London’s many cultural identities. A decade on, Reform UK’s mayoral candidate doesn’t dispute it was her old account - so what’s changed?
Our profile of Laila Cunningham: www.londoncentric.media/p/laila-cunn...
Our profile of Laila Cunningham: www.londoncentric.media/p/laila-cunn...
January 18, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Nine years ago a Twitter user was sending poetry to Sadiq Khan about London’s many cultural identities. A decade on, Reform UK’s mayoral candidate doesn’t dispute it was her old account - so what’s changed?
Our profile of Laila Cunningham: www.londoncentric.media/p/laila-cunn...
Our profile of Laila Cunningham: www.londoncentric.media/p/laila-cunn...
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The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.
January 16, 2026 at 4:11 PM
The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.
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Spurs are like a graveyard of managers. Nobody since they stupidly sacked Poch has emerged from there with their reputation enhanced. Delusional fanbase doesn't help. You look at the squad and it's utterly mediocre. Signings are poor again. Best players injured. Where did the Kane money go?
January 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Spurs are like a graveyard of managers. Nobody since they stupidly sacked Poch has emerged from there with their reputation enhanced. Delusional fanbase doesn't help. You look at the squad and it's utterly mediocre. Signings are poor again. Best players injured. Where did the Kane money go?
Mad but true that Arsenal could end up winning the title without having a single player score double figures in the league
January 17, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Mad but true that Arsenal could end up winning the title without having a single player score double figures in the league
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I think there's a legitimate social identity of despair in social media where you basically need to constantly perform (already existing but in a lesser form) despair in order to reaffirm yourself as part of the group
half the userbase of this website is addicted to the dopamine hit that comes with "all is loss" bad news. they want to spiral out and resent you when you tell them something tethered to reality.
January 17, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I think there's a legitimate social identity of despair in social media where you basically need to constantly perform (already existing but in a lesser form) despair in order to reaffirm yourself as part of the group
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I would love it if Robert Jenrick found himself without a party, I realise it's 2026 and good things keep happening to bad people but I would love it if he'd just fucked it
January 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I would love it if Robert Jenrick found himself without a party, I realise it's 2026 and good things keep happening to bad people but I would love it if he'd just fucked it