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Juvenal and The Guardian are right (again); Landlords first against the wall
have landlords always been evil, or is it a societal sickness borne of New Labour?
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the public service merry go round
more reasons to hate public sector commissioning, thanks again Thatcher
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February 2024

Safeguarding, or rather, kicking off to get public service workers to panic
a warning that this contains discussion of suicide, among other things
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August 2023

Politics vs Policy and Wes Streeting's memoir
Does today's Labour Party understand what it means to rely on "sad, soulless" public services?
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dannie grufferty

July 2023

The Met and mental health - (if you need help just call 999)
tw: i talk about mental health in this including crisis intervention, and other not v nice things
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April 2023

on breaking fast in holy week
a muslim and a christian take a walk - it is work, i promise
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March 2023

On cafes, curtains and clientele
I don’t wish to suggest that a whole industry of workers speak in a certain way, but making sweeping generalisations seems to be the order of the day…
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Negative Capability
inspired by Keats, can we accept uncertainties, mysteries and doubts in the broken homelessness system?
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July 2022

Suella is right: too many people rely on benefits
put up and shut up and go stack shelves for £3 an hour
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Should we tax the childless?
We have already done the opposite via the child benefit cap, so why not try it?

June 2022

A nurse speaks out on the RMT strikes
Why Wes Streeting is wrong (again)
A Monopoly on Risk?
A Dickensian tale from London's dysfunctional homelessness system
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