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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · Jun 6

Back in 2020, many social landlords in the UK made anti-racist pledges in response to Black Lives Matter. I've gone back to find out what, five years later, has changed:
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Black Lives Matter and housing – five years on

It’s been five years since social landlords made pledges for change in response to Black Lives Matter. Has there been a shift in the sector? Jess McCabe reports.

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 9h

A toilet story Mitford recounts as true, however - Louis XIV liked to take carriage rides only with women but didn’t want them to have any physical needs. The Duchess of chevreuse was on a 6 hour ride with him and needed the loo:

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Versailles when she was seized with a pressing and seemingly irresistible need to retire. She knew that there was nothing to be done, though every mile that went by increased her misery.
About half way there the King stopped the coach and a meal was served; she ate and drank as little as she possibly could but even that little made her condition worse. She cast longing glances at a peasant's house near by but dared not go to it. They started off again. Several times she nearly fainted, but she hung on and at last they arrived. Her brother-in-law, the Duc de Beauvilliers, was waiting in the courtyard to meet them and she hissed in his ear the state she was in, saying she would never be able to get as far as her own room. He hurried her to the chapel and mounted guard while she relieved herself there.

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 9h

Obviously it couldn’t be me because I I pen “happy birthday!! 🎂 “ all by myself

a boy and a girl are sitting at a table with a birthday cake with candles on it ..

ALT: a boy and a girl are sitting at a table with a birthday cake with candles on it ..

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 9h

a cat wearing a sombrero is eating a piece of cake .

ALT: a cat wearing a sombrero is eating a piece of cake .

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve noticed that if you lazily use facebook’s prompts to say happy birthday to people, every third message ends on a full stop meaning you end up sending people out of pocket “Happy birthday. Congratulations.” messages

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 10h

This is from Nancy Mitford’s biography of Charles XIV which is full of little details like debunking the idea that there were no loos at Versailles and the nobles just had to piss and shit on the floor.

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 10h

Is this in the crown? 🤔

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 14h

Has someone turned Wii sports into a bar concept

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 15h

a man wearing a furry hat and a crown says you 'll be back like before

ALT: a man wearing a furry hat and a crown says you 'll be back like before

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 1d

This created the first offence of incitement to racial hatred, but didn’t outlaw discrimination in housing or employment. And it went hand in glove with restrictions on immigration from the Commonwealth. Interesting to reflect on and none of this feels irrelevant today unfortunately

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 1d

60 years on from the first ever anti-racist legislation in England, Samir Jeraj has looked back at its legacy for @insidehousing.bsky.social

www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/60-y...

60 years on: the story of the Race Relations Act 1965

This Black History Month, Inside Housing looks back at the Race Relations Act to consider the legacy of the first anti-racism law in England.

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 1d

Wow.

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely fascinating and bananas. The special swords! Being called the immortals!
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Meet the Cultural Illuminati Guarding France’s Most Sacrosanct Asset: The French Language

The sanctity—and relevance—of the French language lies in the hands of the intrepid members of the Académie Française, a centuries-old cloak-and-dagger society working to preserve France’s mother tong...

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 2d

Omg

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 2d

My oldest did a school trip to a Roman farm (in England, this isn’t a Times story about public schools). They had a “real” Roman soldier with a real sword, who charged at the children. He’s still meh on the Romans. 🤷‍♀️

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 2d

That sounds great!

(Though I can just imagine trying to enthuse a 9 and 6 year old about walking up a big hill because it's made of potsherds)

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 2d

I really do want to go to Rome one day, but I can only imagine that the confluence of people going for tourism and people going for religion leads to a completely overwhelming experience, and probably not the best with small kids

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 2d

Admittedly I've not actually been in the sistene chapel, it probably has roughly the same "tourist hell" vibe

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 2d

I have always loved these murals and think they should be protected, but "sistene chapel of the underground"?

C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 A unique test panel from the Tottenham Court Road Station murals by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) is coming up at auction with Lyon & Turnbull on Oct 31.

Created in 1982-86, the polychromatic glass mosaics at TCR are the ‘Sistene Chapel of art of the Underground’, yet remain unlisted.

1.5x1m butterfly / moth mosaic panel - gifted by Paolozzi to the architect who oversaw the installation of the murals, Duncan Lamb.

Tottenham Court Road Station murals - Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 1982-86
Image credit: Historic England

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d

The stress of the EHCP process alone is enough to drive parents round the bend, no one is doing this without good reason.

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d

The polite second version of my response to this. First had more
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d

To get an EHCP you need absolutely reams of proof. Nothing a parent or teacher says will count as evidence and everything in the document comes from medical doctors, educational psychologists, speech therapists, occupational therapists etc
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Rich parents are using SEND diagnoses to get their kids help they don't need — The i Paper

We are fast reaching a stage where the SEND system is only navigable to those with privilege

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d

It just doesn’t make sense to conclude that the children that do make it through the hoops and tests and severe gate keeping by councils and get an EHCP, simply have no additional needs.
It’s believable many aren’t getting them
But *not* that children with no or few needs are getting them.

Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d

There’s 100% unfairness in the system because it’s very hard - especially post-Covid - to get a decent quality EHCP if you rely completely on the NHS and school, and if you don’t have institutional knowledge and aptitude. That is wrong.
However >>

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d

So what this teacher - who won’t put a name to this opinion - is suggesting is that hundreds of parents are getting all these professionals to falsify their views in reports, in evidence to tribunals.
Make sense?

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 3d

Rich parents are using SEND diagnoses to get their kids help they don't need — The i Paper

We are fast reaching a stage where the SEND system is only navigable to those with privilege

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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 5d

if anyone is doing this it’s Americans IMO