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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Amazing … cycling past the Serpentine river in Hyde Park, London in 34 degrees Celsius I came across this heron and 5 cormorants sitting in a line and calling off

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One of my children has asked to borrow a specific translation of Homer … my work here is pretty much done

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Here’s my attempt earlier this month … at my bird feeder

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Spotted on traffic lights in Dublin … not sure how this campaign is going to…

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Workshop at site of the Old Royal Infirmary. Fascinating list of donors to the original hospital in 1879, spanning all walks of life: - Ladies of Edinburgh - Earl of Rosebery - Domestic Servants of Edinburgh - the islands of Orkney and Shetland - Teachers of Edinburgh

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Manchester town hall … what a building

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We’re in the middle of a heat wave and now … 45 minutes of first brisk now heavy rain … bring it on!

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Sunset over a saltwater bathing pool at Westward Ho! On North Devon coast

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Notice the heatwave coincided with 10 days of street celebrations by Arsenal supporters. Now the parade is done, yup, it can rain

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

A bean sandwich for lunch at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool (I left it a bit late and not much was left) … I like sandwiches … I like beans … but together? :-/

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Great to be in Liverpool, working with the city region / local + public authorities … and to see that seagulls in Liverpool have no more respect for royalty (Prince Albert, since you ask) than anywhere else

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I was a guest at a fine dinner in Liverpool before speaking at the Local Govt Assn conference…not sure about my place name, though

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

That’s A LOT of books to take on holiday …

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Sneak preview of the opening of my speech at the Orwell Prizes Ceremony, where I’ll introduce the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness 🗣️📜

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Little trip to Dover to share a progress update with our partners delivering a randomised controller trial of the impact of allocating a personalised case budget to people impacted by homelessness

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Visited Edinburgh last week … this made me smile

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

En route to Edinburgh … I’m going to spend A LOT of time on trains today …

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Nice gate … can I offer you another?

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Unusual story in FT about baboons ‘breaking into elegant houses’ and ‘making off with a half bottle of gin’

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

My Dad came over with an unexpected memento … turns out the hospital where I was born gave me a provisional name with echoes of a Dr Seuss story book

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I can see the sea … little trip to Abbotsham and Instow, north Devon

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Great to catch up with Dr Apurv Chauhan, lecturer in social and cultural psychology at King’s College London, lead author of our forthcoming research project into language, stigma and homelessness … to be published soon!

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Very powerful to visit the house where John Milton wrote (finished) ‘Paradise Lost’ and see a first edition of ‘Areopagitica’ his pamphlet in defence of free speech published in 1644

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Droplets on pear blossom after overnight rain

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Not sure if this interview with a ‘non dom’ leaving the UK for tax reasons is calibrated to win our sympathy?

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’m still overcoming my surprise after listening to a presentation that referred to ‘adultism … discrimination and bias against young people based on the belief that adults are superior in knowledge, experience and authority’

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Visit to child #3 at university

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Quite the hotel I’m staying at in Leeds … this is a detail from the first floor landing … oak panelling everywhere … pretty grand for £81 a night

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Dunno what this bus stop did that’s so wrong … ?

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

A great event today as our CEO @ligia-teixeira.bsky.social had an ‘in conversation’ with Prof Dennis Culhane, Professor in social policy at the University of Pennsylvania who is a global expert on homelessness…the focus was on prevention

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Surely everyone know by know that Dominic Cummings’ advice is never secret … always seems to emerge somehow

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

London is full of hidden gems … a lunchtime walk through the Inner Temple (hail shower notwithstanding)

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

First blossom of spring from my garden … usually it would be forsythia or magnolia … this year the first is a prunus, koko-no-mai

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Day 2 in Belfast for a broad meeting … and an early morning walk past the majestic Queen’s University campus

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Great to be back in Belfast, to visit the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and hear about its unique role as direct provider of housing and homelessness services (rather than via local authorities as elsewhere in the UK) … legacy of sectarian housing/neighbourhood pressures … seems to work tho’

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Saw this on a resident’s door during a visit to a homeless hostel…and I was glad. Many hostels ban pets. But lots of us love pets and I can’t understand why many hostels ban pets 🐈‍⬛

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

We had a good discussion at the Youth Homelessness Prevention international conference in Toronto, Ontario where I gave a presentation on the evidence base for interventions to support families living in temporary accommodation due to their risk of homelessness …

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Not what I want to read a few days before I fly to Toronto for a conference … glad passengers seem ok

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Somewhat surprised that I was given a byline in The Times last week, as I left the paper > 4 years ago

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Greg Hurst @gregjhurst.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

So, BlueSky … I was in Manchester and visited the great Indian street food restaurant-cum-micro brewery Bundobust. This is the logo for their flagship beer, ‘Python’. But … is that a python? Or a venomous snake?

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