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Jess McCabe

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Deputy ed at Inside Housing

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 19h
I'm catching up on the Burnham speech waiting for the bit that has been making people teary. Maybe I've been doing this too long..!
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 22h
Thread on Dan Boultwood's victim who waives her anomity to talk about the experience. For those who didn't see the original reporting, this is the only significant coverage. Maddie says how she's disappointed there wasn't more public introspection and conversation over this, and she's right.
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Dan Boultwood Sentenced After Pleading Guilty To Child Sex Offences
Comic book creator Dan Boultwood was sentenced in court yesterday, after pleading guilty to child sex offences
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham wants a new generation of council housing. But what are local authorities building already? Are they anything like ready to step up to that job? The answers can be found in my latest survey of every council in Britain: www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/bigg...
insidehousing.co.uk
Biggest Council House Builders 2026
Which councils built the most homes in Britain last year? Jess McCabe reveals Inside Housing’s exclusive data
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Apparently we are calling garden offices "outhouses" now?? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘Just look at this monstrosity!’ Inside Britain’s bilious back yard shed wars
The number of luxury sheds and garden rooms has rocketed since the pandemic – fuelled by those wanting an office, a gym or extra living space. Meanwhile, the resentment between neighbours has been ris...
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No doubt this is true, and it probably opens a question about whether there are any other ways to fund construction of social housing because the need is there, and the funding outwith grant appears to be there. www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/we-coul...
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We could have spent £39bn SAHP ‘a couple of times over’, Pennycook says
Matthew Pennycook has said he was surprised by the level of demand for the Social and Affordable Homes Programme and that the government could have spent the £39bn grant programme a “couple of times o...
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I keep seeing ira glass on my feeds now as TAL has joined TikTok, and every time the comments are filled with “ira glass has a face!!!”
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ambrosen @ambrosen.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Can't believe my bus driver's hijacked the bus and is going to drive it along its planned route.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What I love about FOI is getting a response 2 months late, but the day before a story runs
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Judge Judy: Late, You're Late!
ALT: Judge Judy: Late, You're Late!
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We are looking at secondaries at the moment, meaning Instagram is aggressively marketing me private day schools, the algorithm having massively overestimated my net worth and income
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s going to be a major liability problem if your enterprise tool has a chance of committing felony computer hacking when you ask it to search the internet.
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OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is awful.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An inside look at those grant funding announcements from Homes England and how the housing sector really feels 😅 www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/how-...
insidehousing.co.uk
How housing delivery changed: inside the strategic partnership bidding process
After the announcement of strategic partners under the SAHP, some in the sector were left wondering about the government’s priority. Stephen Delahunty reports.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wow I am so bad at this
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My son informed me tonight he doesn’t want to be a millionaire in case it leads to the extinction of his favourite animal, the goose
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Goose Feeding Its Gosling
ALT: Goose Feeding Its Gosling
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I thought I had read enough about breastfeeding for a lifetime by the time I finished nursing my two, but the lack of research into how it works is both fascinating and infuriating www.thetimes.com/article/9e62...
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Why is breastfeeding so hard? Biology might finally have the answer
Could science explain why some women find feeding their child so traumatic? Melissa Denes meets the researchers finally taking lactation seriously
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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New housebuilding figures have been published today - including from the 2025-26 year. They're not where they should be, but have turned the downwards trend upwards.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A major change is coming for how the Building Safety Regulator is going to assess the safety of existing high rise buildings in England. @peteapps.bsky.social has done a dive into why they are changing, and the risks and benefits of making this change>> www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/the-...
insidehousing.co.uk
The Building Safety Regulator is changing the way it assesses existing buildings. What does this mean for social landlords?
The Building Safety Regulator was meant to be examining the building safety cases of all 15,000 high-rise buildings in England. Struggling with this mammoth task, the regulator is changing tack.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
24 hours since Thames Water opened its new water fountain in the middle of Dulwich
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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The petitition to protect the legal rights of disabled children and young people is now over 70,000. Amazing work everyone. Let’s get this to 100,000. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Protect legal right to support for children with SEND
A petition created by a British citizen or UK resident. You can share this petition if you agree with its message.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wow that is a lot of subscriptions.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sovereign Network Group is a housing association that has been a strong developer of homes for years. It missed out on any funding in the latest grant announcement from Homes England. @kathyswinds.bsky.social caught up with the CEO about this and more in a walk around Slough
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SNG boss Mark Washer on how losing out on SAHP funding won’t stop his development vision
Chief executive Mark Washer has bold ambitions for Sovereign Network Group despite it having lost out on its Homes England bid. Katharine Swindells reports from Slough
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/09/2026
I have a new piece out in Nature today on the record-breaking 2026/2027 El Niño, what impacts we should expect, and how governments can prepare. The Niño3.4 region is currently running more than 1C hotter than any prior event on record, and we remain months away from the peak www.nature.com/artic...
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hang on, what happened to them turning into AI bird or whatever?
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just me, looking at council FOI responses, and wondering why literally one council has told me the same number as Welsh government data on theoretically the same data point. Wales, wtf is happening.
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Orca Spin
ALT: Orca Spin
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just saw someone wearing spats on their platform boots, surprising new fashion incoming
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lots of chat about the Lib Dems today, I have to say i don’t think it has been mentioned but I think they have the best policy on the table for SEND
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Last month three councils got a strategic partnership (big boost of funding) from Homes England. We know Burnham wants more homes to be built by councils. The funding announcement left many housing associations disappointed. I did a deep dive into the largest council recipient by ££ of grant:
insidehousing.co.uk
How did Eastleigh become one of the first councils to win a strategic partnership with Homes England?
Andy Burnham’s government wants to push more grant to councils. What can the housing sector learn from one of the first local authorities to win a strategic partnership with Homes England? Jess McCabe...
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“False claims designed to create fear or division must be challenged.” www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/man-cha...
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Man charged over deliberate fire at Glasgow social flats which were target of disinformation
A man has been charged in connection with a “wilful” fire at a block of social housing flats undergoing renovations in Glasgow.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I adore all Holbein's work, but we are SO lucky to have the studies. In my opinion they're even more bewitching than the paintings: delicate yet somehow also a bit rougher and more intimate; vividly human ✏️
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well this is a rare bit of good news
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Regen, involving a heritage building, is not for the weak, at least if you go by this experience. Great story of how this project got done despite the cost doubling, and a parade of setbacks www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/how-...
insidehousing.co.uk
How a small regeneration turned into Acis’ most difficult development project to date
Acis Group went all in on its first regeneration scheme by turning a listed property into supported housing and community spaces. Eliza Parr visits to find out how the housing association made it work...
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think I have gone through all the emotions with screen time, from gratitude when apps and videos helped my kid learn to talk to wanting to through the things out the window apple.news/AwTTEzX3yS8i...
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My autistic son needs screentime to regulate — The Times and The Sunday Times
Our Send agony aunt advises a parent being told that screentime is behind their child’s struggles at school
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Protect your brain: floss, sleep and stay off X
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well this is one answer to fussy eating
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thank you Otter, for carefully transcribing my interview and transforming the words "council tax" into "cows tax".
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's good that this story is getting attention, but it would be equally outrageous if the people whose doors were being hammered on actually were asylum seekers. It's not just a problem because they're international cricketers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Daily Mail reports on the balaclava-led vigilante army visiting their offices to protest the newspaper's coverage of Daniel Thomas's background as a middle-class privately educated man jailed for armed kidnapping [the wrong person, over allegations of drug money being nicked]
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Our intern Amy Rushton did this interview with the new CEO of Generation Rent. A nice piece that looks at what the campaign group will do next now the renters’ rights act is law, achieving many of its lobbying aims www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/what...
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What’s next for Britain’s biggest private renters’ campaign group? We speak to new chief executive Holly Williamson
Holly Williamson ran John Healey’s office before he became chancellor. Now, she is leading Generation Rent. Amy Rushton reports.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So Richard Tice from Reform spoke today at a housing sector conference. Our story is here but I think I want to draw out some thoughts too: www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/deputy-...
insidehousing.co.uk
Deputy Reform leader says he will listen to sector after pushback on allocations policy
The deputy leader of Reform has told senior housing staff there is “absolutely” space for the sector to influence the party’s controversial allocations policy.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
From our news team today: nearly 6000 unsold affordable homes built to meet section 106 planning requirements are listed in the clearing service. Not great, but the home builders' federation estimated it would be 8,500 and a member survey put it at 17,400 www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/nearly-...
insidehousing.co.uk
Nearly 6,000 uncontracted Section 106 homes listed on clearing service
Roughly 5,700 uncontracted Section 106 homes are currently listed on Homes England’s clearing service, Inside Housing can reveal.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I don't think anyone ever disputes that a small group of masked young lads on a street corner is intimidating. But apparently its a question when it's hundreds of fascists marching down your street. The fuck are we doing here.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you want to understand both the deep need for regeneration projects across the country, and the very real barriers to actually get them done, try this deep dive into one Sheffield project searching for investors www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/the-...
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The Sheffield regeneration project in search of an investor
In one of the most deprived parts of the country, a once-lauded council housing development needs more than £500m to regenerate. Katharine Swindells reports
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
People just happy to a smiling selfie with them 👁️and then publish it in a national newspaper 👁️
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At this point I have to admit I feel only admiration and jealously for whoever came up with the la mieux pony universe, I would not have imagined there was a market for toy hay nets to feed your toy pony at the cost of forty English pounds
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I can’t work out if those are space jackboots or space wellies
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Is Jane or Georgette the time traveller then?
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is so incredibly addictive anyhumanever.com
anyhumanever.com
Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
What a mess.
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m not online enough to understand the government’s meme posts
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Andy Burnham's housing policy is now tied in the public mind with council housing. It might surprise you to read this detailed account by my colleague @jamesriding.bsky.social about the Stockport town centre regeneration, and the significant role of build to rent in driving this through.
living.insidehousing.co.uk
How Andy Burnham and build-to-rent drove Stockport’s town centre renewal
Special report: James Riding visits Stockport to unpack the prime minister’s distinctive model of housing-led regeneration. Can it be replicated across the UK?
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