NCTJ journalist working in telly 📺 | current affairs & documentary unit @ITV | consumer rights & factual entertainment @bbcstudios 🦋
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Joined March 2012
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U can prise posting selfies on my insta story w cryptic indie music from my cold dead hands !!!!!!!! ♫⋆｡♪ ₊˚♬ ﾟits a way of life
inheritance tax is very poorly understood. Around a third of people worry that they'll have to pay it, but in reality only 5% of estates (aka the very wealthiest) do.
ppl will back this, wrongly thinking it will help them - it won't ! Labour needs clear messaging on this
🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch is set to announce the Tories will abolish inheritance tax if they win the next election
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A reminder.
The latest HMRC figures show that in 2023–24:
30,400 estates paid inheritance tax
That was 4.72% of UK deaths—fewer than one in twenty
Therefore, roughly 95% of estates paid none.
We’re talking about a tax which affects only the wealthiest estates.
terrible timing for the coronation street script writers who are doing an inexplicable storyline atm where a character is planning a dolly parton themed funeral. rip to a legend<3
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Incredibly sad. One thing I think about a lot as a journalist who writes about some challenging issues is that while it can be uncomfortable and awkward to ask people for proof / documentation and to trust your gut when something seems too extreme to be real, you’re ultimately not just protecting yourself and your own credibility — you’re protecting your subjects and sources, too. If those elevating Arday had done that, this story wouldn’t just have had a very different ending; it never would have been a story at all.
my fave part of being an assistant producer on docs and current affairs programmes. give me a day and I WILL absorb all the information on the internet about spray foam insulation
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Social housing in London has taken a lot of heat on twitter this weekend.
Are social renters disproportionately economically inactive people? (Who should be moved / encouraged out of the capital to make way for productive young professionals?)
Wanted to look into the numbers ⬇️
'economically inactive' yet the unpaid carers living in these social homes hold up half the sky. our entire economy n society wouldn't function without them.
9% of the population are unpaid carers n around 20% of them live in social housing. Always forgotten in these convos
In some London boroughs, 2 in 5 properties are socially rented. Vast swathes of prime, inner london land is occupied by decaying, poorly managed council housing, inhabited by an economically inactive population. My latest for the @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/money/proper…
Cádiz mention !!!!!!! <3
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman
