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Joanna Partridge @joannapartridge.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

@vrounding.bsky.social Hi Virginia, looking to get hold of you regarding your letter about London cafes published in the Guardian. My email is in my bio. Thanks, Joanna

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Joanna Partridge @joannapartridge.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A cacophony of tractor horns are blaring outside the Oxford Farming Conference, ahead of environment secretary Emma Reynolds' speech. The Labour government's pre-Christmas u-turn on inheritance tax rules for farms doesn't seem to have quelled many farmers' anger. One told me: "We aren't going away."

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Joanna Partridge @joannapartridge.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Production of Welsh mussels - mostly exported and eaten in bowls of moules-frites in Belgium and beyond - has fallen off a cliff since Brexit. I visited Bangor to hear how the farmers of the Menai Strait are looking to theEU-UK reset to resurrect trade www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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‘The customers are still there’: Welsh mussel farmers hope post-Brexit reset can revive business

Shellfish exports to the EU from the Menai Strait have all but collapsed, but fishers are looking to the future

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Joanna Partridge @joannapartridge.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I spent budget day in leafy Richmond-upon-Thames, likely to be among the places most affected by the property tax changes announced by the chancellor. Large, detached homes there regularly sell for upwards of £2m, some consider “mansion tax” a misnomer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise

Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough

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Joanna Partridge @joannapartridge.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

In the final report in a Guardian series on the battle for Britain's deindustrialised areas and the rise of Reform, I visited Bridgend in South Wales where Ford closed its factory in 2020, to hear locals' view of Nigel Farage's pledge to reopen coal mines www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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‘Green shoots’ or coalmining past? Welsh town reacts to Labour and Reform’s visions for future

In the final part of a series, we look at the political battle for Bridgend after the closure of its Ford plant

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Joanna Partridge @joannapartridge.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

In a sign of the ongoing shake-up to the world of work sparked by the pandemic, work-life balance outranked pay as the top motivator for workers for the first time according to an international survey of thousands of employees. My article in today's Guardian:

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Joanna Partridge @joannapartridge.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It's the first working week of the year, and that means the post-pandemic hybrid dream is coming to an end for some office workers. I took a look at the changing world of work in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/money/2025/j...

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Post-Christmas blues as UK bosses try to turn back clock on hybrid working

Amazon mandates full five days and BT and Asda want staff in the office three times a week – but not everyone is convinced

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