Writer, editor, feminist. Deputy editor at Inside Housing. she/her. Open for commissions.
London
Joined November 2006
- Tweets38.9K
- Following4.3K
- Followers6.8K
- Likes18.6K
Jess McCabe retweeted
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”.
Read more: trib.al/Qcoo5Iw
Jess McCabe retweeted
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."
insidehousing.co.uk/insight/…
Jess McCabe retweeted
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
inews.co.uk/news/grenfell-wa…
Jess McCabe retweeted
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
thetimes.com/uk/london/artic…
Jess McCabe retweeted
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/…
Jess McCabe retweeted
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
Jess McCabe retweeted
Oh dear, some pretty major mistakes made in this @Telegraph article on the Government renewables auction results today.
Some mistakes have been spotted and it's already undergone hefty revisions (see below) - but it remains fundamentally misleading.
Here's what it got wrong 🧵
Jess McCabe retweeted
We have also forgotten how to take care of those children who live here in the U.K. with life ending risk every day…
Jess McCabe retweeted
Hi @thetimes. One of your columnists, Matthew Parris, writes that PIP is for people “medically unfit to work.” This isn’t remotely true. PIP is a non-means tested benefit to pay for the extra costs of disability. Will your editors correct it? Thanks.
thetimes.com/comment/columni…
ALT PIP: the substantially enhanced welfare benefit for people medically unfit for work)
Jess McCabe retweeted
The Victorian Robert Jenrick: ‘The UK is only one per cent of the world’s transport demand. There’s no prizes for being the first country to build railways and coal mines. We should be working to build modern infrastructure, but not faster than other countries.
Jess McCabe retweeted
Just four out of more than 100 reported sexual offences at Reading and Leeds music festivals since 2018 have so far resulted in prosecutions, according to figures shared with the Observer.
By me, for the Observer theguardian.com/society/arti…
Jess McCabe retweeted
‘Yes, bystanders can save women from sexual assault. But I know first-hand that’s not always enough’
Shocking and infuriating to read the experiences of the author of this piece, who having been sexually assaulted on a Thameslink train whilst pregnant, reported with a witness and had her case ruled “not guilty”.
In the summing up the magistrate explained how a guilty verdict would have a huge impact on the man’s life, and that as she was pregnant she was ‘in a heightened emotional state and could not be relied on to give an accurate account’.
What hope do we have to rallying men to becoming active bystanders to tackling male violence against women if male judges who preside over these cases are openly misogynistic in their rulings?!
Once again: BELIEVE WOMEN.
➡️ theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Jess McCabe retweeted
Southwark families are celebrating an ‘important victory’ after the local council suspended a policy that has resulted in fewer social homes being available to bid on.
Jess McCabe retweeted
This looks like straightforward incitement to violence.
Douglas Murray is just Tommy Robinson with a thesaurus.
"The public will have to go in, & the public will have to sort this out themselves, & it'll be very, very brutal. I don't want them here. I don't want them to live here. They came under false pretences" - Douglas Murray widespread violence
youtu.be/OnYW9-2K4HM?si=rCyI…
Jess McCabe retweeted
No journalist would have picked up this story if I hadn’t been in court waiting for another case.
Stuart Clough used a different name on the court list (John) and there as nothing to suggest he was a police officer on the charge sheet. Pure luck I was there.
The police officer used force systems to ‘obsessively’ track his female colleague.
He turned up at her child’s nursery and at the playground while they were there.
He’s been jailed this morning for stalking. northantstelegraph.co.uk/new…
