As Lewis Hamilton, Arsenal and the Knicks have now won, I would also like a win and people should commission me or hire me. I'm available for op-eds, features, editorial assistance work, social media work etc. michaelamakusha.co.uk

10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist. At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk

4 page spread in Elle 🇱🇹 magazine!

In South London dozens of private renters are being evicted after their landlord - an affordable private rent provider - sold their entire estate to property developer Eviction notices arrived just as the government’s ban on Section 21 became law Full investigation from me @theipaper inews.co.uk/news/estate-wher…

Top British journalist doesn't know what difference a single person with an obscene amount of wealth makes to our lives.

RT @JordanSumbu: After the world is done raving about 🇨🇩 DR. Congo’s grand arrival and fashion look for the World Cup, please also take the…

Today marks 9 years since the Grenfell Tower fire. But 9 years on, there is still no justice. 9 years on & people still live in unsafe buildings. We must not forget those killed because of dishonesty and corporate greed.

Call me a hater but I think living in a world where both trillionaires and global poverty coexist is a sign humanity has failed as a species

Building a database of London-based content creators and iPhone shooters for some paid client work, small brands/founders, etc. Must be able to follow a brief, work quickly, and communicate well. Drop your portfolio or share with a friend RTRT x

Looking to get some interesting PR pitches about AI/race, changes in DEI, stats about Black businesses for POCIT #journorequest

RT @iamntyrell: I love transparency like this (we’re not owed it) because it highlights how episodic life is. It’s not this linear straight…

They burned down the house of African student nurses who are there for their NHS placement. The only things one of them could grab were her uniform, her laptop, & passport. She had to leave the letters her children wrote for her & their photos behind And she still has to work

Private Eye:

"30 women were murdered… not one road was closed, not one protest. What was the connection? They were murdered by white locals." Belfast resident Mark gives @BenKentish a stark picture of the riots unfolding in his city.

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Where is the COBRA meeting, @Keir_Starmer?

You created them. Every single one of those NEETs is a product of your former party's choices. The ones you made while you were in Cabinet. Adult education and apprenticeship spending: 25% lower in 2024-25 than when your former party took office (IFS, Nuffield Foundation). Publicly funded adult further education courses: fell from 5.4 million in 2004 to 1.7 million by the time you left office. A 70% reduction, the majority of it on your watch (IFS, January 2026). College funding per student: 11% lower in real terms than 2010. Sixth-form funding per student: 23% lower (IFS, January 2025). Adults taking qualifications at GCSE level and below: down 50%. At A-level equivalent: down 33% (IFS, Nuffield Foundation). Intermediate apprenticeship starts, the entry-level route for young people without degrees: collapsed from 200,000 in 2010 to fewer than 50,000 by 2020. Your government did that (IFS). Youth services: cut by 70% since 2010 (Mind, Big Mental Health Report 2025) . You had 14 years to invest in British young people. You cut adult education by 25%. You cut FE courses by 70%. You cut college funding. You cut sixth-form funding. You cut apprenticeships for the people who needed them most. You cut youth services. Then you left office and started tweeting bollocks about NEETs as though they materialised from thin air. The £5,000 Reeves is offering is a reimbursement of the Immigration Skills Charge, a levy your own government introduced in 2017 to fund domestic skills training. You created the charge. You collected the money. And you still cut the training budget by 25%. And these visas are for high-skilled workers: doctors, engineers, specialists in fields where your 14 years of cuts left a workforce gap so deep that British employers cannot fill it domestically. They are not competing with NEETs. They are filling holes your government drilled. You were Home Secretary. You were Attorney General. You sat in Cabinet while all of this happened. You do not get to set the house on fire and then complain about the smoke. Sources: Adult education and apprenticeship spending 25% below 2010 levels: Institute for Fiscal Studies / Nuffield Foundation, October 2022 (ifs.org.uk/news/plans-will-l…) Adult FE courses fell from 5.4 million to 1.7 million (70% reduction): Institute for Fiscal Studies, January 2026 (ifs.org.uk/education-spendin…) College funding per student 11% lower, sixth-form funding 23% lower: Institute for Fiscal Studies, Annual Report on Education Spending in England, January 2025, cited in House of Commons Library (commonslibrary.parliament.uk…) Adults taking Level 2 qualifications down 50%, Level 3 down 33%: Institute for Fiscal Studies / Nuffield Foundation (nuffieldfoundation.org/news/…) Intermediate apprenticeship starts collapsed from 200,000 to fewer than 50,000: Institute for Fiscal Studies / Nuffield Foundation, same source as above Youth services cut by 70% since 2010: Mind, Big Mental Health Report 2025 (mind.org.uk/about-us/our-pol…) Immigration Skills Charge Regulations 2017: (legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017…) Skills policy and apprenticeship data: House of Commons Library (commonslibrary.parliament.uk…) Immigration Skills Charge parliamentary debate: Hansard, 21 March 2017 (hansard.parliament.uk/lords/…)

Trying to imagine the response from the British political class if it was another minority faith community who were locked inside their place of worship as bigots threatened them. But it’s Muslims… so… who cares!

RT @Taj_Ali1: I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt” It’s working-class Black and brown…