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Chaminda Jayanetti

@cjayanetti.bsky.social

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Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist. I like good things and I don't like bad things.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 11d

Labour MPs who voted against welfare cuts this summer have warned that plans to change disability benefit assessments could trigger another mass rebellion

Others called for a vote to be delayed until a review into the assessments is complete

By me, for Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to universal credit

Welfare secretary Pat McFadden plans further reforms to the benefits system, expected to include abolishing the work capability assessment.

www.bigissue.com

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2m

while I'm at it, I cant be arsed with endless waffling natural imagery. trees and fields, trees and fields... shut up about fucking trees and fields

"it's sunny, people are happy, good times!" "it's rainy and grey, someone will die, sadface" just fucking get on with it

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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 6m

bluesky liberals are all cowards

which of course is why they're liberals 😀

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 7m

if Plan A doesn't work, unleash Plan B

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 8m

my "unpopular opinions" are actually unpopular

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 9m

yeah it's a goodies v baddies morality story for primary (sorry, "elementary") schoolkids

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 11m

Go Set A Watchman is the original "are we the bad guys?" except nobody had the bollocks to publish it for like 60 years

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 12m

Go Set A Watchman absolutely wipes the floor with To Kill A Mockingbird. On some measures it's my favourite book. To Kill A Mockingbird is a children's book.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13m

is that what you say in the email?

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 14m

or the 2025 archetype: earning £150k but claiming to be basically destitute

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 17m

peak wonk here. always be closing

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Football Rankings @footrankings.bsky.social · 3h

🚨 There will be at least THREE DEBUTANTS at the 2026 FIFA World Cup:

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
🇯🇴 Jordan
🇨🇻 Cape Verde

✅ This will be the first World Cup since 2006 with more than two debutants!

❓ Two potential DEBUTANTS today:

🇧🇯 Benin
🇬🇦 Gabon

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social · 3h

Wow: Helen Hayes, committee chair, says: "All of us, as constituency MPs, see children not being offered places at schools of their choice, because of their additional needs." That's a massive criticism of the schools system.

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Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 7h

Secondly, I would like to take this quote and make it the background of every official in DESNZ. Trying to be too clever-clever never works. Trying to exclude all edge cases makes bad policy.

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 5h

There’s not much to say about the solid wall insulation failures that hasn’t already been said. A diabolical policy failure that wasted money and harmed people.

But one thing I will add is: I think it highlights the need for more state delivery capacity on warm homes, not just regulation
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Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds

Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp

www.theguardian.com

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 4h

all the genocide, none of the guilt!

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 6h

unfortunately The Americans found this thread so there was a bunch of hypersensitive ragesnark overnight and now they've fucked off to bed and the notifications are getting normal again lol

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 6h

american guy: shoving their arse in where it's not wanted

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 10h

By the cat or?

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 15h

healthcare management consultants literally throwing themselves at you

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 15h

haha

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 15h

wow, the first NFT

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 15h

long before the smartphone era I see

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 18h

4chan has ghosted Ofcom, and is ignoring the UK regulators' pleas to comply with the Online Safety Act. Ofcom says it will fine them £100 a day until they answer their email.

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Ofcom fines 4chan £20K for Online Safety Act failings

: Regulator warns penalties will pile up until internet toilet does its paperwork

www.theregister.com

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 18h

yeah

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 18h

would have prospered in the 2020s ratman era