Dan Wilson Craw
@danwilsoncraw.bsky.social
Deputy chief exec at Generation Rent. Geordie. Mostly housing, sometimes other policy stuff and bad jokes
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6 years since letting agents were BANNED from charging renters admin fees, Foxtons is still 'accidentally' charging £200 for checking out.
Read what we thought of this below:
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/buytol...
Read what we thought of this below:
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/buytol...
Did Foxtons try to charge me an illegal £200 check-out fee on my flat?
The thing is, such charges are unlawful, and have been for the last six years, since the Tenant Fees Act of 2019 was implemented.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 3:22 PM
6 years since letting agents were BANNED from charging renters admin fees, Foxtons is still 'accidentally' charging £200 for checking out.
Read what we thought of this below:
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/buytol...
Read what we thought of this below:
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/buytol...
Reading presumably @dlknowles.bsky.social latest on Minnesota and federal prosecutors either resigning or pursuing hopeless cases, and wondering if the Simple Sabotage Field Manual is having a revival
February 8, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Reading presumably @dlknowles.bsky.social latest on Minnesota and federal prosecutors either resigning or pursuing hopeless cases, and wondering if the Simple Sabotage Field Manual is having a revival
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Yeah but he would say that wouldn't he
February 6, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Yeah but he would say that wouldn't he
A good read from @whippletom.bsky.social on how public health workers tackled a polio outbreak in the Haredi community in 2022 www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
How to defeat measles: do listen, don’t judge and learn polio lesson
There is an easy vaccination bogeyman — the antivaxer — but once you label someone the enemy, you declare them lost
www.thetimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:08 AM
A good read from @whippletom.bsky.social on how public health workers tackled a polio outbreak in the Haredi community in 2022 www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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We're excited to announce our new Director - Clara Collingwood!
Clara was previously Campaign Manager at Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK. We're excited to see what she brings to the role in a pivotal year for renters.
rentersreformcoalition.co.uk/new-renters-...
Clara was previously Campaign Manager at Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK. We're excited to see what she brings to the role in a pivotal year for renters.
rentersreformcoalition.co.uk/new-renters-...
New Renters' Reform Coalition Director appointed
Safe, secure and affordable homes for all.
rentersreformcoalition.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 2:50 PM
We're excited to announce our new Director - Clara Collingwood!
Clara was previously Campaign Manager at Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK. We're excited to see what she brings to the role in a pivotal year for renters.
rentersreformcoalition.co.uk/new-renters-...
Clara was previously Campaign Manager at Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK. We're excited to see what she brings to the role in a pivotal year for renters.
rentersreformcoalition.co.uk/new-renters-...
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Everyones keen for a bit of rent control.. (via YouGov)
February 6, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Everyones keen for a bit of rent control.. (via YouGov)
Improving protections for tenants goes hand in hand with better conditions for first time buyers.
Crazy how many politicians and commentators are wedded to a rental system that a) sucks and b) is hard to escape
Crazy how many politicians and commentators are wedded to a rental system that a) sucks and b) is hard to escape
Weird, I thought the Renters' Rights Bill was going to cause the whole market to collapse.
www.ft.com/content/1372...
www.ft.com/content/1372...
Demand for UK rental properties drops as buying becomes more affordable
Falling levels of immigration also reduce competition among tenants
www.ft.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Improving protections for tenants goes hand in hand with better conditions for first time buyers.
Crazy how many politicians and commentators are wedded to a rental system that a) sucks and b) is hard to escape
Crazy how many politicians and commentators are wedded to a rental system that a) sucks and b) is hard to escape
Since changes to tax on second homes and holiday lets in England, their numbers appear to have peaked, falling from 347,000 in 2024 to 336,000 in 2025.
The data is still a bit noisy, with some councils identifying more second homes to charge a premium on, so the fall could be even greater.
The data is still a bit noisy, with some councils identifying more second homes to charge a premium on, so the fall could be even greater.
Holiday lets are pricing locals out of their own communities.
The Government must give councils the powers they need to license and limit them, now. Without action, tourism will keep taking homes.
Read more in our latest blog 👇
www.generationrent.org/2026/02/02/w...
The Government must give councils the powers they need to license and limit them, now. Without action, tourism will keep taking homes.
Read more in our latest blog 👇
www.generationrent.org/2026/02/02/w...
What have tax changes done to the number of holiday homes? - Generation Rent
Over the past decade, the rapid growth of second homes and AirBnb-style short term lets has increasingly driven families out of their communities as their homes get repurposed as holiday homes for tou...
www.generationrent.org
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Since changes to tax on second homes and holiday lets in England, their numbers appear to have peaked, falling from 347,000 in 2024 to 336,000 in 2025.
The data is still a bit noisy, with some councils identifying more second homes to charge a premium on, so the fall could be even greater.
The data is still a bit noisy, with some councils identifying more second homes to charge a premium on, so the fall could be even greater.
It's... memorable
February 3, 2026 at 9:08 AM
It's... memorable
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Subscribing to the print edition of The Onion has literally helped keep me sane
January 31, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Subscribing to the print edition of The Onion has literally helped keep me sane
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Landlords eh?
This is from a landlord's inspection report, triggered when the tenants gave their notice to leave, in which the landlord tries to justify deductions from the tenant's deposit.
I grabbed this from a subReddit for UK Renters ( r/TenantsInTheUK).
This is from a landlord's inspection report, triggered when the tenants gave their notice to leave, in which the landlord tries to justify deductions from the tenant's deposit.
I grabbed this from a subReddit for UK Renters ( r/TenantsInTheUK).
January 30, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Landlords eh?
This is from a landlord's inspection report, triggered when the tenants gave their notice to leave, in which the landlord tries to justify deductions from the tenant's deposit.
I grabbed this from a subReddit for UK Renters ( r/TenantsInTheUK).
This is from a landlord's inspection report, triggered when the tenants gave their notice to leave, in which the landlord tries to justify deductions from the tenant's deposit.
I grabbed this from a subReddit for UK Renters ( r/TenantsInTheUK).
Trouble for Labour is policies to drive up productivity are impeding their Pride In Place agenda by making it harder to run businesses like this
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
February 1, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Trouble for Labour is policies to drive up productivity are impeding their Pride In Place agenda by making it harder to run businesses like this
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great explainer of what lies behind the grievances against the student loans system. Essentially students were told the threshold would rise with earnings, but it hasn't.
Though I'm still unclear on who has benefited from the repeated freezes: the taxpayer, universities?
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
Though I'm still unclear on who has benefited from the repeated freezes: the taxpayer, universities?
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
'Mis-sold' student loans to cost graduates £14,000 more than they were told
The terms under which school-leavers were persuaded to take out student loans have been changed retrospectively multiple times
inews.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Great explainer of what lies behind the grievances against the student loans system. Essentially students were told the threshold would rise with earnings, but it hasn't.
Though I'm still unclear on who has benefited from the repeated freezes: the taxpayer, universities?
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
Though I'm still unclear on who has benefited from the repeated freezes: the taxpayer, universities?
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
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RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-demonstrates-how-to-remove-tapeworm-by-scooting-ass-across-carpet/
January 30, 2026 at 8:30 PM
RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-demonstrates-how-to-remove-tapeworm-by-scooting-ass-across-carpet/
On PM yesterday I heard the BBC's central America correspondent switch from received pronunciation to a dramatic Spanish accent to say "Marco Rubio"
I find it funny when BBC correspondents switch almost aggressively into a local accent when naming an international bigwig. Michel Barnier a common one from a few years ago, heard one assume full Venezuelan accent for "Nicolas Maduro" the other day. Totally unnecessary, and unbritish if you ask me
January 31, 2026 at 8:22 AM
On PM yesterday I heard the BBC's central America correspondent switch from received pronunciation to a dramatic Spanish accent to say "Marco Rubio"
Interview with @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social in the FT - tldr (for me) is current version of private housebuilding sector won't build enough to meet need; forthcoming strategy ("coming weeks") will set out how SMEs, councils, build to rent and the state will diversify it www.ft.com/content/9dae...
London’s high house prices need ‘market adjustment’, says minister
Matthew Pennycook says far-reaching reform is needed to ‘get more volume out of the system’ and deliver more homes
www.ft.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Interview with @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social in the FT - tldr (for me) is current version of private housebuilding sector won't build enough to meet need; forthcoming strategy ("coming weeks") will set out how SMEs, councils, build to rent and the state will diversify it www.ft.com/content/9dae...
Anyone know what the BBC's coverage of Oswald Mosley and his lot in the 1930s was like? Genuine q
I mean, Konstatin Kisin holds no public office, he is responsible for absolutely nothing. All he does is lie and race bait for clicks and cash. There is absolutely no justification for using the licence fee to give him air.
The BBC normalising yet another grifting, lying, race baiter is the story here. Why are we paying for this?
January 30, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Anyone know what the BBC's coverage of Oswald Mosley and his lot in the 1930s was like? Genuine q
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every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
January 28, 2026 at 8:22 PM
every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
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🚨🚨BREAKING 🚨🚨
The government has today announced that many private renters will have to wait a DECADE before their landlords will be forced to make sure their home is decent.
Read more of our statement in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
The government has today announced that many private renters will have to wait a DECADE before their landlords will be forced to make sure their home is decent.
Read more of our statement in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
January 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM
🚨🚨BREAKING 🚨🚨
The government has today announced that many private renters will have to wait a DECADE before their landlords will be forced to make sure their home is decent.
Read more of our statement in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
The government has today announced that many private renters will have to wait a DECADE before their landlords will be forced to make sure their home is decent.
Read more of our statement in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
Apparently the Hell's Angels were unavailable www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘A militia that kills’: uproar in Italy over ICE security role at Winter Olympics
Milan mayor says agents ‘not welcome’ in co-host city and Italy can take care of security itself
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Apparently the Hell's Angels were unavailable www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Not the main point but I find it surprising that women are less likely to say Reform are too right wing/worse on climate change than men (assuming I'm interpreting this right)
But women are esp likely to say that Trump is a barrier to voting for Reform UK and it came out particularly strongly in our focus group of mothers in Stevanage who had voted Labour and were now considering Reform - you can read great @bethanymrd.bsky.social write up www.politico.eu/article/nige...
January 27, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Not the main point but I find it surprising that women are less likely to say Reform are too right wing/worse on climate change than men (assuming I'm interpreting this right)
Really good news after some shameless lobbying by the financial sector who should instead have been divesting from freeholds as soon as it turned out, like a decade ago, that the asset was politically toxic
We promised in our manifesto to “tackle unregulated and unaffordable ground rent charges”.
We’re honouring that commitment today by legislating to cap ground rents at £250 per year, changing to peppercorn after 40 years.
We’re honouring that commitment today by legislating to cap ground rents at £250 per year, changing to peppercorn after 40 years.
January 27, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Really good news after some shameless lobbying by the financial sector who should instead have been divesting from freeholds as soon as it turned out, like a decade ago, that the asset was politically toxic
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“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
Hi @companieshouse.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, I really don't think these dates warrant a big green tick
January 23, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Hi @companieshouse.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, I really don't think these dates warrant a big green tick
I've been doing a thread of observations about today's Warm Homes Plan measures relating to private renters
Big day for housing and climate - but no detail yet of what the new standards are for private landlords.
Proposals last year would require homes to meet EPC Band C by 2030 (or 2028 for new tenancies), spending a maximum of £15k. Q is if any of that has changed in the final plan.
Proposals last year would require homes to meet EPC Band C by 2030 (or 2028 for new tenancies), spending a maximum of £15k. Q is if any of that has changed in the final plan.
The press release for the Warm Homes Plan - the long-awaited Warm Homes Plan! - is out
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
January 21, 2026 at 8:17 PM
I've been doing a thread of observations about today's Warm Homes Plan measures relating to private renters