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Jessica

@jessicagh.bsky.social
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Social Media Journalist at The Times / LDR Reporter at Suffrago (all opinions my own etc etc)

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/05/2025
British men urged to join ‘Dad strike’ calling for more paternity leave
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British men urged to join ‘Dad strike’ calling for more paternity leave
Exclusive: Fathers planning protest with babies in London on 11 June to highlight UK’s ‘rubbish’ statutory leave, least generous in Europe British fathers are being urged to join the world’s first “Dad strike” to protest about the UK’s statutory paternity leave, which campaigners say is the least generous in Europe. Fathers are planning to protest with their babies outside the Department for Business and Trade in London on 11 June in an effort to force the government to improve leave for dads and non-birthing partners. Continue reading...
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Jessica @jessicagh.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
After years telling people to look up at the camera during interviews… it took multiple attempts for me to actually master it on this video
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Jessica @jessicagh.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A total joy to write for Arlen’s Substack this week - I will say that my rage about the lack of buses did require a LOT of editing down
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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
My 7yo wants to join the school council to make the case for longer play times. She constantly talks about how much she misses reception and Y1 because they actually got to play - which is how children learn and process information. It’s so sad. Is this really leading to better long term results?
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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Okay, here is why I HATE AI. I'm trying to research poems about going into space, or famous quotes about escaping gravity. As the FIRST RESULT, Google gives me this SHITTY poem IT'S WRITTEN ITSELF, like it's fucking Adrian Mole and I'm John Tydeman at the BBC. HATE HATE HATE.
The worst poem ever
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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
That'll be the demograph both trying to care for elderly parents with no social care, and support adult children who still can't afford their own houses, or to have children. They're seeing the impact of everything.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 03/04/2025
an idle thought I've had at the back of my head for a while is that a lot of white collar/middle class jobs used to be legitimately fun and/or intellectually stimulating and/or ludicrously well paid and now they're few or none of those things, and we don't talk about that at all
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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
With the NI hit to jobs, the care crisis and concerns about our global priorities, Labour is losing its female voters. In my latest read for @theipaper.com, I speak to those who now feel they made a mistake last July about their hopes and disappointments inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
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I regret voting Labour - they've let women down
Polling shows that women are falling out of love with Labour - thanks to economic policies that will hit them the hardest and 'unforgivable' aid cuts
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
gonna make people feel more secure by cutting their money when they're already struggling
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Hannah Mae Collins @hannahmcollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Attaching this article to my CV with a covering letter simply reading “pls help???” Seriously though, glad to see this being written about. It has quite literally ruined my life and the lives of many people around me, and it’s so far from over.
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Senior TV producers take shelf-stacking jobs as UK industry remains in crisis
Experienced figures doing entry-level roles amid prolonged work drought since Covid and rise of online content
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
JPMORGAN slashes $TSLA Q1 delivery estimates “to just ~355K, which is -8% y/y .. and -28% q/q from 495K in 4Q24 .. “.. We struggle to think of anything analogous in the history of the automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so quickly ..” Cuts target price to $120 (prior $135
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 06/03/2025
The milestone highlights the rapid growth of renewable energy despite political headwinds since President Trump’s re-election
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Wind and solar power overtake coal in US for first time
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/03/2025
More than 170 mothers killed by their sons in 15 years in UK, report reveals
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More than 170 mothers killed by their sons in 15 years in UK, report reveals
Number is nearly one in 10 of all women killed by men, leading to calls for government action to tackle matricide * ‘A real injustice’: mothers killed by their children is still a hidden issue in UK * ‘You took the life of someone who had given you…
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"The most striking aspect to Trump's crypto reserve and the scrapping of anti-money laundering rules, which together amount to a global charter for criminals, is that he's making no effort to dress them up. This pig has no lipstick." My column. on.ft.com/43kiBOu
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Trump’s heist in broad daylight
[FREE TO READ] Having previously declared bitcoin to be a ‘scam’, the US president now wants to add it to the Fed’s balance sheet
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Katie NLC @nlc-movement.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Ministers have outlined plans to abolish the leasehold system 👏👏 @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social said the government would "continue to implement reforms to help millions of leaseholders who are currently suffering" #Leasehold www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Government to end leasehold flat system with new commonhold plans - BBC News
Ministers want to move to a "commonhold" system where flat-owners own a share of their buildings.
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Jessica @jessicagh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I have been weirdly obsessed with The Times’ Gen Z survey, so I decided to write a Substack on it open.substack.com/pub/jessharp...
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In Defence Of The Un-Fun
My thoughts on The Times’ survey of Gen Z attitudes and habits
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Jessica @jessicagh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
have never really understood why, when lots of European countries have a tourism tax, we don’t?
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 28/02/2025
The levy, due to come into effect later this year, will rise to a daily rate of €7 for many hotels in Barcelona, where locals blame overtourism for soaring rent
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Catalonia doubles tourist tax to fund housing for locals
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Jessica @jessicagh.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
chance would be a fine thing
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"Normalise living with older strangers." "Normalise living with flatmates into your thirties." "Normalise communes." How about you Normalise building some fucking Houses.
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Jessica @jessicagh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I’m hating on the fluffy bunnies I’m sorry open.substack.com/pub/jessharp...
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Jellycat: The Cute And Fluffy Face Of Gen Z’s Problems?
I'm writing this to work out why I really, really hate the things
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Philip Stafford @staffordphilip.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
At last Thames are providing a decent supply to someone. www.ft.com/content/40b5...
ft.com
Thames Water burns through £15mn a month on lawyers and advisers
Troubled utility tells court hearing for emergency loan that restructuring costs could top £200mn
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
PS: There is no such thing as Sustainable Aviation Fuel, nor, at scale, will there be. The polite term for Reeves's claim about it is a myth. The less polite term is a lie. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Out of 1,500 global climate policies, only 63 have really worked. That’s where green spin has got us | George Monbiot
Grand schemes, many backed by governments, masquerade as positive action on the environment. They should be disowned, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Jessica @jessicagh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Watched The Traitors and suddenly the parallels hit me… open.substack.com/pub/jessharp...
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If You Liked The Traitors, You'll LOVE Parliament
The BBC game show has a lot of similarities with my life as staffer
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19/01/2025
this is basically my entire policy platform, people should be physically going to the office but they should only have to work 30 hours a week, 35 at a push, everyone should be getting a little bit of office-based work, as a treat
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Jessica @jessicagh.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I have finally, finally, seventeen days (and a year) after I made it a NY resolution, got around to writing a Substack piece. I’m still practicing but hoping it’s better received than my article for The Tab circa 2018 about my french ex boyfriends 🙏 open.substack.com/pub/jessharp...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/01/2025
UK women share their experiences of using fertility-tracking apps
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UK women share their experiences of using fertility-tracking apps
More women are using apps instead of the pill, but while some find them ‘freeing’, others had unwanted pregnancies After 15 years on the contraceptive pill Francesca* decided that she wanted to know how her body felt without additional hormones. She…
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
"In Christmas films, a festive trip to the shops is a magical experience. That, though, is a fantasy American past, not the real British present." column, etc
newstatesman.com
Christmas can’t save the high street
Property owners, the pandemic and Black Friday have killed the town centre.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19/11/2024
could we maybe do a protest of people who are currently renting and can't afford to buy property and who also won't inherit enough to ever buy a place
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