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Paul Ainscough

@pwea.bsky.social
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Time for a new kind of politics. Hard times come again no more. Politics, writing, book binding and eco projects Green Party Councillor for Fairfield Ward Croydon Promoted by Martyn Post on behalf of Paul Ainscough, PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Foam factory job cuts will have 'significant' impact on Croydon insidecroydon.com/2026/09/26/f...
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Foam factory job cuts will have ‘significant’ impact on Croydon
With 100 skilled manufacturing jobs under threat, while failed Mayor Jason Perry refuses to act, other councillors have stepped in to persuade the Nike supplier Zotefoams to reconsider its plan to …
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Outsourcing children's home has proved costly and high risk insidecroydon.com/2026/09/24/o...
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Outsourcing children’s home has proved costly and high risk
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The collapse of a multi-million-pound contract to manage a children’s home in the borough has exposed the flaws in the procurement process and sunk Mayor Perry’s cla…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Outsourcing children's home has proved costly and high risk insidecroydon.com/2026/09/24/o...
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Outsourcing children’s home has proved costly and high risk
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The collapse of a multi-million-pound contract to manage a children’s home in the borough has exposed the flaws in the procurement process and sunk Mayor Perry’s cla…
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Nightwatch's volunteers remember Jamie Keating every night insidecroydon.com/2026/09/13/n... #Croydon #Homelessness #History @davidmorgan100.bsky.social @sheltercharity.bsky.social
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Firm behind £60m Purley Pool project goes into administration insidecroydon.com/2026/09/12/f... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #PurleyPool @eastcroydoncommorg.bsky.social
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Nightwatch's volunteers remember Jamie Keating every night insidecroydon.com/2026/09/13/n...
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Nightwatch’s volunteers remember Jamie Keating every night
CROYDON CHRONICLES: This week, Minster archivist DAVID MORGAN has gone back just 50 years, for a heart-rending story of volunteers and sacrifice that began with a local newspaper reporter and the P…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This poor thought out legislation deserves to fail. It will affect vulnerable people.
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Adderley suspension lifted by Greens after six-month wait insidecroydon.com/2026/09/10/a...
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Adderley suspension lifted by Greens after six-month wait
Husband of TV personality Nadia Sawalha is finally allowed to sit at Croydon Town Hall as an official Green Party councillor. WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports Croydon Council, as of this …
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Shaping Croydon's light-touch exhibit offers clues to the future insidecroydon.com/2026/09/11/s...
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Shaping Croydon’s light-touch exhibit offers clues to the future
An exhibition, “Shaping Croydon – Architecture and Ambition”, has opened this week at the Museum of Croydon, just in time for this weekend’s celebration of the capital’s arc…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Never again doesn't seem so certain now
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Starmer disingenuous to the last. His ambition outstripped his ability. I don't this he ever had a care for the Labour Party.
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Not only that, he would know that former Mayor Boris Johnson introduced the ULEZ policy while he (Cleverly) was an AM. This is going to be an interesting campaign.
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Perry admits he has no idea when work will start on Purley Pool insidecroydon.com/2026/08/26/p...
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Perry admits he has no idea when work will start on Purley Pool
Not for the first time, Croydon’s Mayor is out of his depth when facing the most straightforward of questions, reports PEARL LEE Five years after promising to reopen Purley Pool “immedi…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Perry admits he has no idea when work will start on Purley Pool insidecroydon.com/2026/08/26/p...
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Perry admits he has no idea when work will start on Purley Pool
Not for the first time, Croydon’s Mayor is out of his depth when facing the most straightforward of questions, reports PEARL LEE Five years after promising to reopen Purley Pool “immedi…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thought for the day: "Difference is the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity." John Hulme
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When will we learn. Note UK Labour are not socialists.
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I've added my name to the open letter calling for a public inquiry into the tragic death of Professor Jason Arday. Will you join me? goodlaw.social/625453
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Nailed it.
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Exposed: New CEO's role in Norfolk's £30m incinerator scandal insidecroydon.com/2026/08/17/e... #Croydon #Norfolk #LocalGovernment @privateeyenews.bsky.social @patrickjbutler.bsky.social
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Croydon Pride.
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milominder @milominder.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ofcom, the Met, Parliament need to take a look at coverage like this from Pearson and The Telegraph after the Jason Arday tragedy. Unconscionable bile. #r4today
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
Black person plagarizes: they take your job, your money, they sneak into your house and steal your dog White person plagarizes: they’re very sorry, of course they’ve lined up a new job writing for the nation, isn’t it great that we all had a teachable moment together?
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Great article. I remember hearing Brandt address the Labour conference in 1986. A true hero of the old SPD. insidecroydon.com/2026/08/13/a...
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As Brandt Report warned, we can’t afford to be small-minded
We need to break out of our cycle of doom, despair and decline to become a confident, outward-looking country again, says ANDREW FISHER Our planet is more connected than ever. We switch on the tele…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Austerity has a lot to answer for. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Three Ages of Child - Episode 3: Adolescence - BBC Sounds
A journey through the landscape that shapes the health of our children.
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Secretive MP Philp's shares in wife's company raise questions insidecroydon.com/2026/08/12/s...
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Secretive MP Philp’s shares in wife’s company raise questions
INSIDE CROYDON INVESTIGATES: Nigel Farage is fighting a by-election in Clacton tomorrow because he wanted to avoid parliamentary scrutiny over his political donations. Here, we take a detailed look…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Exploiting Kenya academics. Do British universities really care? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Outlook - Fake essays: What I learned meeting Kenya’s shadow scholars - BBC Sounds
Patricia Kingori reflects on an industry where you can buy ideas and take the credit
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This week's top posts: Children's home firm based in New Addington fined £100,000 insidecroydon.com/2026/08/05/c... #Croydon #Crime #Kent #Children @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk @ofstednews.bsky.social
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Children’s home firm based in New Addington fined £100,000
A care company based in New Addington has become the first to be successfully prosecuted and fined for running unregistered children’s homes. Catalyst Care Ltd and its directors, Davidson Lyn…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Medway council failed too Children's home firm based in New Addington fined £100,000 insidecroydon.com/2026/08/05/c...
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Children’s home firm based in New Addington fined £100,000
A care company based in New Addington has become the first to be successfully prosecuted and fined for running illegal children’s homes. Catalyst Care Ltd and its directors, Davidson Lynch-Sh…
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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Street trees are good for our health and a real benefit in reducing pollution and the heat island effect. They are also feeling the strain of our changing climate and so need more help, not being smothered in hot asphalt
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Croydon and Sutton are next to use Met's anti-shoplifting tech insidecroydon.com/2026/08/04/c...
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Croydon and Sutton are next to use Met’s anti-shoplifting tech
According to Scotland Yard’s own figures, fewer than one-third of reported shoplifting incidents using a new system result in cautions or convictions Croydon’s high streets are to get n…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Ansari's £90m property empire in collapse as receivers move in insidecroydon.com/2026/08/03/a...
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Ansari’s £90m property empire in collapse as receivers move in
In the latest sign of difficulties for businesses in Croydon, one of the borough’s biggest developers and landlords – a political donor to Sadiq Khan and Yvette Cooper in the past &#821…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Lidl summer camp at Legacy zone provides thoughts for food insidecroydon.com/2026/08/03/l...
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Lidl summer camp at Legacy zone provides thoughts for food
NADIA AZIZUDDIN visited the Legacy Youth Zone to witness the launch of an innovative project to teach youngsters how to eat more healthily Supermarket chain Lidl has joined forced with national you…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
BBC News - Sir John Curtice: The "Burnham bounce" is real but it's not massive - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sir John Curtice: The "Burnham bounce" is real but it's not massive
The governing party's poll ratings have improved but they're only just ahead of Reform
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Summer special offer: listen to our latest Croydon Insider FREE insidecroydon.com/2026/07/27/s... #Croydon #Westfield #Lavender #TeenagedTerrorism @christianwolmar.bsky.social
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Summer special offer: listen to our latest Croydon Insider FREE
Our special summer edition of the Croydon Insider podcast is available now – and completely free of charge. With a special line-up of guests – all Inside Croydon readers or contributors…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
When will it end.
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
He's done it again.
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Perry's plan: More borrowing. More debt. And £58m more cuts insidecroydon.com/2026/07/26/p...
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Perry’s plan: More borrowing. More debt. And £58m more cuts
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Reports sneaked out ahead of next Wednesday’s council cabinet meeting talk of ‘difficult decisions’, after residents have already suffered six years of the cons…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Philp all at sea as he claims French shot at him in the Channel insidecroydon.com/2026/07/28/p...
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Philp all at sea as he claims French shot at him in the Channel
The French navy appears to have come up with a novel way of dealing with small boats in the English Channel: shoot at them. Or, at least, get a matelot to fire a gun somewhere in the general vicini…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
No surprise.
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Perry's cycle lane sabotage looks to cost Croydon another £7m insidecroydon.com/2026/07/25/p... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis @londoncycling.bsky.social @london.gov.uk @londoncentric.media
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Perry’s cycle lane sabotage looks to cost Croydon another £7m
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Transport correspondent, JEREMY CLACKSON, on how the council kept secret another devastating ruling over the Tory Mayor’s bungling over the borough’s roads  Not conte…
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Coming to a podcast platform near you very soon: our latest Croydon Insider, complete with lavender, poetry, terrorism and Westfield. Check out our Patreon page for more: patreon.com/insidecroydon
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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A reminder that my book on the history of protest is now published. It is superbly produced with a great cover. Buy it now from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Contested Commons Formidably erudite, compellingly argued, and dryly humorous, Contested Commons will change the way you think about the politics of space, the "myth of the commons", and the history of England since the eighteenth century: MATTHEW KELLy, author of The Women Who Saved the English Countryside 
"Starting with Kennington Common, and ranging from Steeple Bumpstead to Sheffield, Stonehenge and Brixton, and with a cast that includes ramblers, ranters, revolutionaries and ravers, this is a superb, sweeping but fine-grained history. It's also a highly necessary, politically urgent reminder of what public space is - places for everyone, owned by everyone, accessible to everyone, whether carefully tended or wild - and what it isn't, the tradition of pseudo-public space that runs from Victorian parks to privatised malls.' OWEN HATHERLEY, author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
MP Jones survives the ins-and-outs of the Burnham reshuffle insidecroydon.com/2026/07/23/m...
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MP Jones survives the ins-and-outs of the Burnham reshuffle
WALTER CRONXITE, Political Editor, reports on the varying fortunes of local MPs and some with notorious connections to Croydon Town Hall in the appointments by the new Prime Minister There was no n…
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Selsdon hotel's new owners clear Croydon planning hurdle insidecroydon.com/2026/07/22/s... #Croydon #Selsdon #Heritage @balhnews.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social
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Selsdon hotel’s new owners clear Croydon planning hurdle
Planning consent for the £30million refurbishment project for the Selsdon Park Hotel has been rubber-stamped by Croydon Council. What is little more than administrative approval by the planning aut…
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Archbishop Tenison's still struggling to find replacement Head insidecroydon.com/2026/07/22/a... #Croydon #Education @schoolsweek.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social
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Archbishop Tenison’s still struggling to find replacement Head
EXCLUSIVE: Croydon’s last senior school to have survived academisation has spent the past six months recruiting for a new headteacher, without success. By our education correspondent, GENE BR…
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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Great article. Although my Greandfather would never put Blacksmith and Farrier in the same sentence. A Farrier and a Blacksmith are not the same trade he would forcefully remind me. We had both trades in the family. londonist.com/london/featu...
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The Croydon Blacksmiths That's Been Here Since 1740
A history of horseshoes, munitions, machinery and gates.
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