Writer, editor, feminist. Deputy editor at Inside Housing. she/her. Open for commissions.
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I’ve got a book out! Speed read your way through the key feminist concepts, events and people: waterstones.com/book/30-seco…
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Listen to the interview with Simon Dudley here
The excellent @jester of @insidehousing
Nigel Farage has sacked Simon Dudley as Reform UK’s housing spokesman after he said the Grenfell Tower fire was a “tragedy” but that “everyone dies in the end”.
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I do think this is missing the point dramatically.
Lots of people from across the political spectrum are worried about the performance of the Building Safety Regulator and how rules can be safely tweaked to speed up house building.
However building safety must come first >>
This is why @Keir_Starmer is asking for the Reform housing guy to be sacked??
It's just a statement of the obvious that stringent new safety rules have costs, and maybe those costs have to be weighed against the purported benefits? That this is controversial is insane.
Thinking of survivors and those bereaved in Grenfell, and also there have been serious safety issues found in thousands of other buildings too after Grenfell. In many cases they are still living with fear about what would happen in case of a fire, as work hasn’t been completed
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Reform's new housing spokesperson, says building safety regulation has gone too far. Asked if the Grenfell fire shows the risk of deregulation he says: "Sadly, you know, everyone dies in the end."
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EXCLUSIVE:
Reform's Housing Spokesperson Simon Dudley (formerly of Homes England) says post-Grenfell safety regs have gone too far and "everyone dies"
@Grenfellnextkin have condemned the comments
My write-up of @insidehousing's exclusive interview
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Someone make this into a period drama, it would be so good.
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If anyone deserves to be on a six figure salary it’s a doctor?!
Somewhat strange to hear @bbcnickrobinson haranguing an NHS Consultant for being on “over £100,000” and claiming to channel the feelings of ordinary people.
His salary in 2024 was between £345,000 - £349,000. For presenting radio programs. Which never saved anyone’s life?
My colleague is looking for a student case study:
Are you a UK university student struggling with student accommodation costs? I'd love to have a quick chat, please get in touch [email protected] #journorequest
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New: US bosses at cladding firm which sold material for use on Grenfell knew it was unsafe and knew it was being sold for use on the tower, newly released emails reveal
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Well I’m back here for the breaking news on the war unfortunately. In the time since I last posted I had a stranger phone me via Facebook messenger to try and get me to sell my account to them for $1500.
September 2024 - the council agreed to fund the OT
November 2024 - it still hasn't actually started being delivered!
Within the housing shortage, one group is particularly affected: families in need of a larger home. But how big is the demand? And how can building policy and allocations change, to ease the problem? My story for @insidehousing insidehousing.co.uk/insight/…
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Inside Housing’s annual survey reveals the salaries and other pay of the chief executives of more than 160 of the biggest housing associations in the UK, along with the current gender pay gap at the top of the sector. @jester reports insidehousing.co.uk/insight/…
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Journo request for a project I'm working on. Looking to speak to people who bought a house in London in the 1980s on an ordinary income. Not an inter-generational war exercise - more an attempt to provide some genuine reflection into how the city has changed over the decades
This is one of those stories that sounds bad in a headline - the council spending millions on an estate it plans to demolish! But many of the shocking disrepair stories relate to landlords withholding repairs on estates which have been designated as needing regeneration
Write up on Milford Towers decision by @robjfirth: mylondon.news/news/south-lon…
