Jess McCabe
@jessmccabe.bsky.social
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Jess McCabe
@jessmccabe.bsky.social
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Black Lives Matter and housing – five years on
It’s been five years since social landlords made pledges for change in response to Black Lives Matter. Has there been a shift in the sector? Jess McCabe reports.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
Back in 2020, many social landlords in the UK made anti-racist pledges in response to Black Lives Matter. I've gone back to find out what, five years later, has changed:
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/blac...
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/blac...
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It’s out! The saddest, most honest song you’ll ever hear about mental illness - and here’s the video, starring me and the cat who wanted to be the star. I hope you love it. youtu.be/whGTRxRzyIE?...
Ariane X - Not Normal (Official Video)
YouTube video by Ariane X
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 8:04 AM
It’s out! The saddest, most honest song you’ll ever hear about mental illness - and here’s the video, starring me and the cat who wanted to be the star. I hope you love it. youtu.be/whGTRxRzyIE?...
Name your favourite time traveller
Bill and Ted imprinted comic “what does this person from the past make of the present” on my brain and I never recovered. Joan of Arc doing aerobics in the mall or nothing
a group of people are dancing in a circle in front of a sign that says ncs
ALT: a group of people are dancing in a circle in front of a sign that says ncs
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Name your favourite time traveller
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Distraction January
January 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Distraction January
Opened TikTok, was immediately served a video defending the reputation of Ghengis Khan, closed TikTok.
January 30, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Opened TikTok, was immediately served a video defending the reputation of Ghengis Khan, closed TikTok.
Years ago I went to cover the Lilac project in Leeds, in a story that unfortunately got deleted from the internet during that weird transition between nothing and everything going online. It really made a good impression, with its lovely straw brick walls. Also thick walls=castle vibes to me
"Thickness is often conceived in negative terms in contemporary architecture, indicative of a lack of material optimization & therefore inefficient. However,[...] agricultural waste products, like straw, invert those logics"
ltlarchitects.com/mass-straw-house
ltlarchitects.com/mass-straw-house
January 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Years ago I went to cover the Lilac project in Leeds, in a story that unfortunately got deleted from the internet during that weird transition between nothing and everything going online. It really made a good impression, with its lovely straw brick walls. Also thick walls=castle vibes to me
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The US government has tried and failed to get a magistrate judge to sign off on an arrest warrant for Lemon. And then to get a more senior judge to grant it.
Seems like they’ve now found a way to get it done – arresting a hugely high profile journalist for reporting is a real threshold.
Seems like they’ve now found a way to get it done – arresting a hugely high profile journalist for reporting is a real threshold.
Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.
January 30, 2026 at 1:09 PM
The US government has tried and failed to get a magistrate judge to sign off on an arrest warrant for Lemon. And then to get a more senior judge to grant it.
Seems like they’ve now found a way to get it done – arresting a hugely high profile journalist for reporting is a real threshold.
Seems like they’ve now found a way to get it done – arresting a hugely high profile journalist for reporting is a real threshold.
I somehow missed this announcement in 2024!! Two new Cazalet novels!! I just saw someone on instagram reading a proof of the first one and lost my mind for a second www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
‘Uniquely qualified’: Elizabeth Jane Howard’s niece to continue her Cazalet Chronicles novels
Novelist Louisa Young will write the sixth, seventh and eighth books in a move that ‘will thrill existing readers’
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:34 AM
I somehow missed this announcement in 2024!! Two new Cazalet novels!! I just saw someone on instagram reading a proof of the first one and lost my mind for a second www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
The advent of PIN log ins is brilliant. Security has now done a full 360 in the name of extra secureness, and so we can have “password” as a password again like nature intended
January 27, 2026 at 10:35 PM
The advent of PIN log ins is brilliant. Security has now done a full 360 in the name of extra secureness, and so we can have “password” as a password again like nature intended
Is there a support group for parents who have had to learn the extensive rules of the game Hero Slam
January 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Is there a support group for parents who have had to learn the extensive rules of the game Hero Slam
Shout out to my painstaking FOI on this very subject www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/bigg...
Councils actually completed roughly 10% more homes last year. It’s nowhere near the level to meet need, but there’s great projects across Britain
Councils actually completed roughly 10% more homes last year. It’s nowhere near the level to meet need, but there’s great projects across Britain
January 25, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Shout out to my painstaking FOI on this very subject www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/bigg...
Councils actually completed roughly 10% more homes last year. It’s nowhere near the level to meet need, but there’s great projects across Britain
Councils actually completed roughly 10% more homes last year. It’s nowhere near the level to meet need, but there’s great projects across Britain
I’m rereading Howard’s End again, but I could only find the copy I made tepid undergraduate notes in. One in the introduction refers to a “diacotamy” (sic)
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
I’m rereading Howard’s End again, but I could only find the copy I made tepid undergraduate notes in. One in the introduction refers to a “diacotamy” (sic)
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They’d much rather write a ‘grabbing parents of perfectly normal kids are stealing your taxes’ piece than anything like ‘concerned parents doing their best to navigate a broken system to try & advocate for their children’.
But very happy to run a ‘How my diagnosis at 50 explained everything’. 🙄
But very happy to run a ‘How my diagnosis at 50 explained everything’. 🙄
January 24, 2026 at 9:43 AM
They’d much rather write a ‘grabbing parents of perfectly normal kids are stealing your taxes’ piece than anything like ‘concerned parents doing their best to navigate a broken system to try & advocate for their children’.
But very happy to run a ‘How my diagnosis at 50 explained everything’. 🙄
But very happy to run a ‘How my diagnosis at 50 explained everything’. 🙄
Wow all the detail of this, including the idea Farage was advising on “impact investing”
January 23, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Wow all the detail of this, including the idea Farage was advising on “impact investing”
Another extremely important story by @peteapps.bsky.social, this time about a positive ventilation system gone wrong because it was installed in a mouldy loft. An extremely shocking story, which put at risk a very young baby
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/indo...
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/indo...
The damp and mould quick fix with dangerous consequences
Positive input ventilation units are marketed as an easy solution to damp and mould. But if improperly installed, they can have dangerous health impacts.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Another extremely important story by @peteapps.bsky.social, this time about a positive ventilation system gone wrong because it was installed in a mouldy loft. An extremely shocking story, which put at risk a very young baby
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/indo...
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/indo...
I just crossed the street to avoid a skip pick up gone wrong, trying not to breath in because of the huge cloud of construction where half the contents had spilled onto the road as frantic workers tried to scoop it back in while holding up traffic.
January 23, 2026 at 2:09 PM
I just crossed the street to avoid a skip pick up gone wrong, trying not to breath in because of the huge cloud of construction where half the contents had spilled onto the road as frantic workers tried to scoop it back in while holding up traffic.
The hanging chads, some of us remember!
Though if he was president would Al Gore have gone on to make arguably the most impactful PowerPoint presentation in history
Though if he was president would Al Gore have gone on to make arguably the most impactful PowerPoint presentation in history
Maybe the real rupture happened in 2000 not 2016
what do you MEAN Al Gore heckled Lutnick at Davos
January 21, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The hanging chads, some of us remember!
Though if he was president would Al Gore have gone on to make arguably the most impactful PowerPoint presentation in history
Though if he was president would Al Gore have gone on to make arguably the most impactful PowerPoint presentation in history
This might be a bit contrarian but if there’s something that I don’t want to happen in a novel it is climate change
January 21, 2026 at 2:41 PM
This might be a bit contrarian but if there’s something that I don’t want to happen in a novel it is climate change
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
“Not out of them are the shows of history erected: the world would be a gray, bloodless place if it were entirely composed of Miss Schlegels.“
“Not out of them are the shows of history erected: the world would be a gray, bloodless place if it were entirely composed of Miss Schlegels.“
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
"It pulls at my clothing and sometimes I feel I've got to pick it up, cuddle and kiss it."
"It pulls at my clothing and sometimes I feel I've got to pick it up, cuddle and kiss it."
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
'In the evening we had a dance'.
'In the evening we had a dance'.
January 21, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.
“Not out of them are the shows of history erected: the world would be a gray, bloodless place if it were entirely composed of Miss Schlegels.“
“Not out of them are the shows of history erected: the world would be a gray, bloodless place if it were entirely composed of Miss Schlegels.“
Do facts matter or do vibes matter - the green party knows how to say things that progressive left wing people vibe with. but on this and other matters, where is the grip on the exact facts.
Good lord he can't even get the details on Trident right ─ the warheads are British produced, it's the missiles that are the problem because they are American.
This headline leaves out the key points:
Closer alliances with Europe. We are becoming the weak link against Donald Trump.
A defence strategy not dependent on the USA.
And ending the billions wasted on Trident - which doesn't work & leases the warheads from...the USA.
Closer alliances with Europe. We are becoming the weak link against Donald Trump.
A defence strategy not dependent on the USA.
And ending the billions wasted on Trident - which doesn't work & leases the warheads from...the USA.
January 20, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Do facts matter or do vibes matter - the green party knows how to say things that progressive left wing people vibe with. but on this and other matters, where is the grip on the exact facts.
There are some people it's very easy to interview because they are a font of stories and anecdotes. One of these from me today: www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/rive...
Riverside CEO Paul Dolan on his plan to build ‘something positive’ after cancer and hopes of gaining a C1 grade
Paul Dolan had to partially step back as chief executive of Riverside after finding out he had bowel cancer. Today, he is launching a fundraising campaign.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 3:09 PM
There are some people it's very easy to interview because they are a font of stories and anecdotes. One of these from me today: www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/rive...
An interesting insight here into one of the backbench Labour MPs who has been focusing on how the government's been delivering on homelessness, or in her words how government can "get our shit together"
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/paul...
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/paul...
Paula Barker: how Labour can ‘get our sh*t together’ on homelessness
Paula Barker spent less than a year as shadow homelessness minister. Now she’s advocating for homelessness from the back benches. Katharine Swindells meets her.
www.insidehousing.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 1:27 PM
An interesting insight here into one of the backbench Labour MPs who has been focusing on how the government's been delivering on homelessness, or in her words how government can "get our shit together"
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/paul...
www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/paul...
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I'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.
The Trump administration has discussed offering asylum to Britain’s Jewish population, a lawyer for the president has said.
Robert Garson, Trump’s personal lawyer, said that the UK was “no longer a safe place for Jews” ⬇️
Robert Garson, Trump’s personal lawyer, said that the UK was “no longer a safe place for Jews” ⬇️
Trump lawyer says US discussed offering asylum to British Jews
Trump lawyer says US discussed offering asylum to British Jews
www.thetimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:24 AM
I'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.
Today's bemusing "why is this not a Spelling Bee word and have I just misspelt it or hallucinated and it's actually not a word":
"filmic"
"filmic"
January 16, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Today's bemusing "why is this not a Spelling Bee word and have I just misspelt it or hallucinated and it's actually not a word":
"filmic"
"filmic"