🏠 How do we fix the housing crisis? 🔧
🏗️Government says it’ll build 1.5m homes this parliament.
But IPPR North research shows housing challenges differ across regions. We need a place‑led approach, not just more supply.
@indiafhg.bsky.social explains why👇
So true. Also, many of the Americans doing literally nothing about Epstein’s American ‘associates’ are precisely the ones lying about Europe & particularly the UK being overrun with child-rapists. It’s insane.
And remind me - how much are CEOs and shareholders taking home each year?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Is it time to stop framing “U-turns” as a bad thing?
If a government listens to the people and changes their mind on policy that had proven to be unpopular, surely that is democracy working how it should?
Maybe we need to rebrand the U turn.
www.thetimes.com/article/0044...
Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.
Personally I have some wonderful friends from uni, all of them southerners, all of them lovely.
But it's only with hindsight I really realised how much I moulded myself into a "Northerner Lite" to fit in.
Now I'm back in Manchester, my accent has returned with a vengeance, and that's quite nice ☺️
It is genuinely jarring to see how
a) many of the privately educated southerners speak about locals and northerners amongst one another and TO YOUR FACE
b) they get a kick out of your accent (cue one fella asking me if I think he "sounds posh to me", so what did I sound to him?)...
What @robynvinter.bsky.social so brilliantly recounts is something I can remember vividly, but then when you go home you get told how posh you sound, and you feel a sort of shame amongst your fellow northerners.
And as a Uni of York alum, someone who chose that uni to stay closer to home...
"Each time my university friends jokingly echoed [my accent] ... I found myself undergoing elocution conditioning. Within a year, the identifying characteristics of my accent had gone, replaced with a sort of unplaceable, vaguely northern voice."
🥲 hard relate
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Does anyone else feel incredibly pessimistic about the future of the planet?
End of rules based order, end of NATO, climate change, rise of fascism and on and on…
My goodness it is so disheartening to be a progressive watching everything you fear come into fruition.
Or better yet, ask ANY WOMAN EVER since 97% of women have experienced a form of sexual harassment!
I think Kemi might need to go and speak to some young girls and ask them who they’re more worried about.
Is it the bogeyman the media love to blame? Or is it the boys they pass in school every day telling them to “go back to the kitchen”, who idolise Tate and use AI to alter their images.
Grim.
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
If the President of the United States can call a woman “piggy” with no recourse or consequences, the fight for the rights of all women to be heard and treated as equals has become a joke.
Great op-ed
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