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Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social · 6h

With heavy hearts we release our findings of our annual investigation into the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in 2024.
Read more on our site here:

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Our investigation finds that 1611 people experiencing homelessness died in 2024 - a 9% increase on the previous year. — Museum of Homelessness

We are devastated to share our latest research into the deaths of those who die. It has revealed the continued impact at the sharpest edge of the homelessness crisis, as the Labour Government has fail...

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 15h

A few.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 15h

Your children (or more likely grandchildren) won't get to go to university is a bold pitch to potential tory voters.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 16h

Breaking: Tories would slash university places by 100k.

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in apprenticeship funding.

Tomorrow, Badenoch will unveil plans to limit student numbers across all subjects.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Tories would slash university places by 100,000 - Research Professional News

Student numbers cap plan billed as saving £3 billion to invest in “doubled” apprenticeship funding

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 17h

Agreed!

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 17h

I could've been a judge, but I never had the Latin... I never had the Latin to get through the rigorous judging exams. They're very rigorous, the judging exams, very rigorous indeed. They're noted for their rigor. People come out of them saying, "My God, what a rigorous exam!"

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 17h

Yes, I once was an art historian/critic. Some 20 odd years ago. Sorry.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 18h

Crowds at a concert, Amazon warehouses, super stores, apartment blocks. All in dialectical tension between the inhuman imposed order of the whole and the variation and individuality of the detail - which, again, cannot both be seen at the same time.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 18h

If you've not seen Gursky prints in the flesh, they are big - often 2 meters wide or so - but hugely detailed. Formally rigorous, usually flat, geometric patterns, bordering on the abstract and de-individualised, but the detail - which can't be seen at the same time as seeing the whole - is various.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 18h

Fascinated to see that Andreas Gursky, one of the most interesting photographer artists of the 1990s - who did/does huge prints from multiple stitched digital shots - is now quite enthusiastically working with an iPhone.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘Photos don’t go bigger than mine’: the epic, impossible images of the great Andreas Gursky

From Amazon warehouses to Olympic skiers and the crowd at a Madonna gig, his pictures have made him one of the world’s most feted photographers. So why did the German artist want to postpone his new s...

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

Oh, that is dreadful, I'm sorry.

Yes, but a long way to go on an answer, I fear.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

Heseltine was at least a man of some principles, though many of them were not ones I'd agree with. He was also an ambitious, back stabbing git, but vaguely in pursuit of principles.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

Yes - same year. And it is the worst club. My sympathy and understanding.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

It was horrible. MND is a deeply cruel condition. But I do think awareness and earlier diagnosis has meant it seems more prevalent, rather than increasing numbers.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

Jenrick's big problem is that most people don't know about him at all, but anyone who does regards him as a slimy, unprincipled piece of shit. Which is not a good base for leading the Tories to victory, regardless of TikTok videos at tube stations.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

And the things Jenrick (a former solicitor) will casually throw under the bus for perceived advantage include the basic principle of an independent judiciary.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick now proposing sacking judges he doesn't like. I can just about remember when Conservatives cared about things like the rule of law.

George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 1d

The Daily Telegraph: MI5 kept in dark in China spy trial fiasco #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

My mum died from MND in the early 2000s, I don't know about more prevalent - certainly more in the public eye (and I think earlier diagnoses).

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

Robert Jenrick is particularly vile not because of his views. He doesn't have any views. His particular loathsomeness is that he is utterly amoral in what he is prepared to say for perceived advantage, without any care for consequences.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

Just watched 1917. Unconvinced by plot or meaning, which both seemed a bit trite, but blimey that is some bravura film-making.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

Interesting indeed on the TFA argument. Thinking about it in relation to the s.48 point in Lumsden v Charles [2025] EWCC 7

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

Pretty low over the garden. Phone camera.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

Work interrupted by a particularly noisy red kite.

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 2d

A reminder from the High Court that where the local authority owes the duty to provide suitable accommodation, and is in breach of that duty, general statements about the difficulty of obtaining temporary accommodation will not be enough to avoid a mandatory order

nearlylegal.co.uk/2025/10/unsu...

Unsuitability and a mandatory order - Nearly Legal: Housing Law News and Comment

Hammad, R (on the application of) v Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (2025) EWHC 2425 (Admin) This was a judicial review of RBKC’s failure to provide suitable accommodation under s.193 Housing Ac...

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 2d

A reminder from the High Court that where the local authority owes the duty to provide suitable accommodation, and is in breach of that duty, general statements about the difficulty of obtaining temporary accommodation will not be enough to avoid a mandatory order

nearlylegal.co.uk/2025/10/unsu...

Unsuitability and a mandatory order - Nearly Legal: Housing Law News and Comment

Hammad, R (on the application of) v Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (2025) EWHC 2425 (Admin) This was a judicial review of RBKC’s failure to provide suitable accommodation under s.193 Housing Ac...

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 4d

Uh huh. Do try to be better. Bye.

Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 4d

I can see from your timeline how strongly you have responded to the Manchester attack. Bye.

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