This is not normal.🧵
A candidate for president is explaining how a worm ate part of his brain while a rival who’s an ex-president is “cursing audibly” in court while listening to a porn star describe lousy sex with him while a key supporter who wants to be the ex-president’s …

The Raheem Sterling Scholarships are open to Black British students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds from the Greater London area. Worth up to £16,250 per year. Deadline is 30 May!

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This is fascinating & incredible & funny in so many ways but I'm especially struck by that amazing 1960 BBC RP accent. No one talks like this now, the accent is literally extinct.

🚨 New NEF report!

We dissect Right to Buy, the decline of social housing, and how to build better housing policy going forward. 🏠

We also expose how over four in 10 council homes sold under Right to Buy are now let out by private landlords…

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Well, this is adorable ☺️

Happy birthday to Dave Gahan. Here are Depeche Mode with New Life on Razzmatazz in 1981. The full recording is at youtu.be/5A8tGCDcRAg and the song features on this It's a Synth 1978-1983 playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/1JTXp…

🔴Sangita Myska: Media Figures Sign Open Letter to LBC Expressing ‘Deep Concern’ About Her Departure

Broadcasters and politicians fear her “abrupt” exit means “excellent journalists are at risk for simply doing their job and asking robust questions”

bylinetimes.com/2024/05/10/san…

This remains one of the sharpest insights any comedian has ever made into the nature of politics 👏

As well as attacking disabled adults, the govt is now going after disabled children & young people. Massively important story

Thank you John for doing this. This is incredibly important. Conflating data on booked assistance and TUAG is appalling. Feels like they’re trying to remove our legal right. Thanks Doug Paulley as well. Over to you DfT

Looking for some scriptwriting motivation? Here are just a handful of the new Non-BBC Writing Opportunities currently listed on our opportunities page. ✍️

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Stop this onslaught of attacks, say disabled people in letter to PM
disabilitynewsservice.com/stop-this-onsl…

NUJ demands emergency NI Policing Board meeting on sinister surveillance of journalists following shocking revelations at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal hearing in London yesterday about the scale and nature of PSNI’s surveillance of journalists… nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj-d…

Any Tory who watches this and doesn't weep with shame at what they've done should crawl under a rock and stay there forever. And Labour can join them if they continue these repugnant policies. This man below is a hero, we should cherish his arrival. Instead we arrested him

Urgent Notification issued for HMP Wandsworth
👉7 suicides in the last year
👉drugs rife
👉security not good enough despite last year’s escape
👉most prisoners locked up for 22 hours a day, often with no time outdoors

REVIEW: Against Landlords by Nick Bano – radical ideas for tackling the housing crisis – viewdigital.org/review-against… - Vicky Spratt Verso Books Michael Pierse The Shift London Renters Union Mick Byrne

An increase in the #UniversalCredit Administrative Earnings Threshold has now been implemented by Communities NI. Disappointing that advice from SSAC hasn't been followed to exempt lead carers until there is a childcare strategy in place to help parents meet this obligation.

The DWP is out of control and destroying carers' lives by with their incompetence or worse. The latest revelation, by Patrick Butler
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Got some good news today. My regular column for the ace magazine CommLivingmag has been shortlisted for an award at the 2024 Southern California Journalism Awards! I'm a finalist for Best Foreign Columnist. Thank you Saba Salman for having me write for the magazine!

Identical business model is deployed to plunder children’s homes and foster care: agency providing last-minute freelance nurses to NHS hospitals is routinely charging up to £2,000 a shift bbc.co.uk/news/health-68…