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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Liz retweeted
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
Liz retweeted
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.
this has captured something I’ve never been able to put into words before ! When my dog died I realised I wasn’t a ‘dog person’, I just rlly loved MY dog. rip smudge❤️
Rule 72:
“On quiet roads or streets – if a faster vehicle comes up behind you, move to the left to enable them to overtake, if you can do so safely.”
The cyclist is already on the left - the bus cannot safely overtake. Nothing wrong with the cyclist’s behaviour
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 ⬇️
the social housing system isn't perfect - but I can't wrap my head around ppl on twitter dot com calling social housing the 'chief villain' of the housing crisis, bro the empty second homes, oligarchs, YIMBY newbuild slum flats and wealth hoarding landlords are right there
'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