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Jess McCabe
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · Jun 6
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...
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
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 8h
In this version of the garden of Eden, on the sixth day god created the basset hound
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 9h
Indeed!
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 9h
Paid with by welfare cuts sounds completely bazonkers
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 10h
We made a move 2 years ago and tbh we somewhat got it wrong but the stamp duty costs are so high it’s hard to swallow moving again so soon. I assume they would need to replace it with something else though
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 15h
A long day “off” correcting the EHCP annual review. It’s so slap dash. Even the school is wrong
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d
I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race
The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...
www.thetimes.com
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 1d
Ai is good because instead of just reproducing the book jacket info you can get AI to randomly speculate what it might be about
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d
By integrating sharia law into our legal system? Not bothering with democracy?
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d
We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 2d
The buddy movie we didn’t know we needed
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Captain Fanta @sassy0210.bsky.social · 2d
"Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior Edgar Allan Poe?"

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 1d
A signed Steve Reed “build baby build” hat has found its way to @insidehousing.bsky.social towers from Labour Party conference
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 1d
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘It’s a big question’: kibbutz residents ponder return home after Hamas attack
Two years on, Israel has said the Holit community can go back – but memories of the horrific events are still raw
www.theguardian.com
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 2d
Jenrick’s decline from bad to worse continues then, wow
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Henning Hoff @henninghoff.bsky.social · 2d
About to defect to Reform, are we? Or straight to Robinson’s lot? Mind-boggling to see what is becoming of the Conservative Party which put Mosley in his place and threw Powell out after the “Rivers of Blood” speech…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham
Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit
www.theguardian.com
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Gavin Kelly @gavin-kelly.bsky.social · 2d
I expect we'll be seeing a lot more of this.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d
*gasp*
“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 2d
Having had to pull out of buying a property because of what the survey revealed, this is just a really good idea
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
UK ministers aim to speed up homebuying by four weeks
Proposed government overhaul of house purchase process looks at shifting some costs from buyers to sellers
www.theguardian.com
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d
Maybe we should normalise being this snotty about other things
Music is about to expire because most people can’t really understand Mahler
Crisis: film students raised on K Pop Demon Hunters have a hard time sitting through Rashomon
The average Brit has not read Rabelais in French!
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d
My personal bechdel test for Substacks and podcasts on literature:
Only or almost exclusively references white male writers
Quotes Harold Bloom, skips most 20th century ideas about books
References the straw man (or woman probably) who exclusively rereads the Harry Potter again and again
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d
I suppose this is a red flag list really, it’s been a long weekend
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d
My personal bechdel test for Substacks and podcasts on literature:
Only or almost exclusively references white male writers
Quotes Harold Bloom, skips most 20th century ideas about books
References the straw man (or woman probably) who exclusively rereads the Harry Potter again and again
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d
This is an absolutely wild story, wth
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d
An academic was aghast when her partner was accused of IRA activity. After his trial, he confessed
An academic was aghast when her partner was accused of IRA activity. After his trial, he confessed
Mary Attenborough’s nightmare began when the police raided the flat she and Michael Gallagher shared, their memoir reveals, but their relationship prevailed
www.theguardian.com
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 4d
Muriel Spark, what a writer. I’ve been reading Loitering With Intent. You get so invested in the realism and character then Spark pulls the rug out and reminds you it’s actually a little postmodern experimental gem about writing and art
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d
A politician who embodies the current direction of the Tory party: a supporter of all the big policy shifts of 2016-24, who literally worked in Downing Street, who has decided oh, no, it is actually the fault of the immigrants. No, it’s your fault!
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 4d
*googling 'can I trademark K Lamity?'* www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Next Tory leader? Rise of Katie Lam reflects rightward shift on migration
Shadow Home Office minister who tweets in language of hard-right populism is talked of as future of conservatism
www.theguardian.com
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 5d
According to my records, perpetrators in 14 out of the 20 formally declared terror attacks in Britain since March 2017 have had previous criminal convictions or cautions

The six exceptions include the Parsons Green bombing, murder of Sir David Amess and the 2023 Hartlepool stabbing
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d
I wrote a short piece for the Observer on the attacks in Manchester.

observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
My son recently found a swastika drawn on the pavement at...
The Manchester attack didn't come as a shock. The only surprise is it hasn’t happened sooner
observer.co.uk
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 5d
some days at the paragraph factory are more existential than others
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 5d
A question for Times columnist Sebastian Payne:

What is this cheaper source of "energy" that you speak of?

The world's energy experts would like to know…
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