Coms and work with us! A great opportunity for someone with experience of local government, homelessness services or client management to help us deliver system-level change to end homelessness

I’m thrilled we have published this piece on the power of the creative arts to support people in a journey of recovery from homelessness .. and the importance of evaluation to capture its impact👇🎻🎺🎼

⁦@LigiaTeixeira⁩ + I had a great meeting with ⁦Paula Barker⁩, co-chair of the all party parliamentary group on ending homelessness, to discuss how we can continue to work together … a great champion of the cause of ending homelessness

Brilliant vignette from Lucy Fisher ‘s lunch with the FT with James Cleverly as guest ⌚️⏱️

Very encouraging to see a framing of ending all forms of homelessness (and referring to families in temporary accommodation) … and a focus on long term solutions

‘Sos + chips’

This is so great … as Hon Sec of the Parliamentary Press Gallery in the 2000s, my big aim was to have a woman journo as chair for 1st time … there were great candidates but each of them I approached said no (retirement / promotion / commitments etc) … delighted with progress

Quick overnight trip to Rochdale to make a short film with some people who have experienced homelessness .. had to have a quick look upwards at Rochdale’s magnificent town hall. The finest municipal building in England, in my view

Thomas Partey!

Grateful to PoliticsHome for publishing my summary of new research into language, stigma and homelessness - and what politicians and people in the public eye can do about it

Literally a trigger warning for brilliant production of Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe, set in the Wild West of America

I’ve been in Western Australia, where their trains have a much better alternative to the ghastly ‘See it, say it, sorted’ from our tubes and trains

I’ve been in Australia, where the magpies have got it all wrong …

4 days is a long time in politics …