martinhwheatley.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Lovely day out, over 800 years of history with Cambridge City Council's dressing up box well and truly raided.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

If I exclude from my income all my expenses I'm earning less than the minimum wage. This is a disgrace. I blame the government. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

Congratulations to @homelessimpact Their report: What is a Hostel in 21st Century Britain? has been selected by our Editorial Panel as one of the 'must read' reports of 2025, www.thinkhouse.org.uk/reports/2025/ #ukhousing #housingresearch #housingpolicy

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

[NEW] Reducing school absence: Innovation lessons from the last Labour government Read our new report by Moira Wallace on how learning from the last Labour government can help Keir Starmer reduce school absence. Full report and briefing 📄 www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Buy cheap houses, chop them up into HMOs, move to Dubai on the proceeds with a maid and infinity pool, then complain about anti business agenda driving you out of UK. At least one implies it’s to dodge tax too www.telegraph.co.uk/money/proper...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

How it started/How it’s going.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

We were privileged to see it on Friday. Art collection at Upton exceptionally good, esp Dutch 17th c and 18th c British.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Why do we continue to see competitive salaries in the public sector as a problem? There are plenty of reasons to cull quangos, but how much senior staff are paid is not one of them In fact being able to pay a competitive salary is one reasons quangos are created

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Tremendous opportunity for Britain here. Let's see if we can swap our riot-inciters for their cancer researchers.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

For @municipaldreams.bsky.social and other social housing connoisseurs, homes built for Witney RDC, Cotswold vernacular design and materials encouraged by local benefactor Sir Stafford Cripps

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Quartet of fascinating churches in tiny villages in the far SW corner of Oxfordshire. First up, Broadwell 1/4

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

BBC London news this morning was a story about London Councils' temporary accomodation costs, and then a story about primary school closures in the capital... Doesn't take much to join the dots.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Utter gibberish as usual. "Family GPs" don't sign off SEND plans or disability benefits.

submitted 8 days ago • 57 comments

Equity in #ActiveTravel requires everyone to be on board with key concepts. Check out the first of our #LanguageMatters series for accurate inclusive terminology and their meanings. Words have power, let’s get it right! wheelsforwellbeing.o...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Top marks to BT agent who solved longstanding problem with our landline today, less so his company, who, it transpires, set it up with the wrong settings two and a half years ago...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine that: a drunk Fox entertainment host can't run the largest agency in the world. It's a real shocker. www.mediaite.com/politics/the...

submitted 13 days ago • 962 comments

The apple tree in our garden has it's first blossom #appletree #spring #nature

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Housing policy failure has consequences...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I mean, there’s a reason for that tbh, I wonder if you can guess what it is?

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

Wareley and Gransden Woods, went for the bluebells but other wonderful flowers too

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Really interesting opportunity for anyone interested in influencing tax policymaking, working with excellent CenTax team @arunadvani.bsky.social @andy-summers.bsky.social If you have skills/experience in policy-orientated analysis and engagement, do apply centax.org.uk/job-vacancy-...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Truly irresponsible reporting by Reach journalist. Driver would really have to be doing something ridiculous to be pulled over for going too slowly. Clearly driving over the limit/too fast for conditions much more risky www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/uk-worl...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future. Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

submitted 18 days ago • 88 comments

The funny thing about a lot of objections to solar farms is that they seem to be based on a dislike of tech being in a 'natural' place. And oh my loves, there are few spaces that have been moulded by tech to the same extent as the classic British farmer's field.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Having been in this position twice in recent years bereavement is tough and (1) probate may take a few months (2) selling may take 6 months + or more But extra tax doesn't cut in until well after that.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Something's got to give, and I would like to propose that it's our property tax system Scrap stamp duty and council tax, introduce an annual tax proportionate to the home's value. Easiest way to tax wealth Landlords pay it, not tenants Represents a cut for 75% of population

submitted 35 days ago • 53 comments

This is what the "National Cycle Network" route from Cambridge to @nationaltrust.org.uk Wicken Fen should look like. Only about 2 miles out of 10 are even close, rest broken farm access roads, a couple of mud baths and bridge with steep concrete steps 🙃

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments