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cjayanetti.bsky.social
Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits - these days mainly for the Observer, Big Issue and Politics Home. Not a tribalist. I like good things and I don't like bad things.
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Smoke and mirrors from Kendall. Whether the transition from receiving PIP is four weeks or 13, disabled people are still going to be denied necessary support, and access to work in many cases, by these cuts. This is an unconscionable policy which will harm so many people. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 14 hours ago • 14 comments

Drinks in deepest metropolitan elite North London to celebrate, well, reflect on Labour's 1st year in govt...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Spending Review announcement of new Crisis and Resilience Fund represents a substantial real-terms cut @cpaguk.bsky.social www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/63441

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Israel can take out an Iranian commander 1000km away with a drone missile through a single bedroom wall, without any other damage. But to target a Hamas leader a few kilometres away, they need to raze whole neighborhoods to the ground. Is it obvious yet?

submitted 20 hours ago • 54 comments

MI6 smugly explaining to Cobr how this can't happen here because you'd never get planning permission.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

We now cross over to BBC Radio Derby.

submitted 17 hours ago • 38 comments

NEW CHART: Nuclear renaissance? The rise, fall and rise of UK nuclear power over eight decades (Thanks to Ho Woo Nam for pulling the data together & Tom Prater for making such a cool chart) www.carbonbrief.org/...

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

"I went to talk to people in Ballymena, and was told to make myself 'scarce' or there'd be trouble "Some local people were reluctant to speak to The Journal, stating that they only speak to GB News." www.thejournal.ie/ballymena-an...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Judgement Day for the EHRC: How the equality watchdog turned into a toxic culture war campaign group iandunt.substack.com/p/judgement-...

submitted 19 hours ago • 56 comments

This is where they go wrong. They still want to play by the rules.

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

You just know bay leafs are nobs www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

The collapse of health services has left school staff, and often the lowest-paid, forced into undertaking complex medical care for vulnerable pupils. One trust is now considering legal action Important investigation from @cjayanetti.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/an-accident-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

This is why Titania McGrath was so shit - because the real thing is so much funnier www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Please help this just cause

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

as an aside, that insane Mail front page would have been better had Liz Jones left it another three years

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

"The point is that he and his staff are operating on a different level of politics than basically everyone else right now, and the rest of society desperately needs to catch up. That level of politics, to reiterate, is one that is decided with guns." www.discourseblog.com/p/the-only-r...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

what i want to know is, who would even think of spelling “kristi” with an m?

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

One of the most insane 9/11 stories to me -- this woman got laid off the day before, missed the attacks, then came back to work because the HR department all died

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social )

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