Jack Shenker
Journalist at The Guardian
Journalist and other things, based in London and Cairo
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2 weeks ago |
lrb.co.uk | Jack Shenker
How does anyone make sense of Britain’s rental crisis? Let’s start with Ruby’s story – and that of her landlord, which is inseparable from her own though they’ve never met. Ruby was born in Kent, where her mother had been sent to live as a teenager while under the care of a local authority in London, ‘a forgotten girl’, as Ruby called her, ‘shifted out to wherever was cheap’.
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Aug 2, 2024 |
msn.com | Jack Shenker
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Aug 2, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Jack Shenker
At the moment when Gabriela Rodriguez discovered she had been sacked for eating a tuna sandwich, she was carrying the bins out. Removing rubbish bags from the office in Finsbury Circus – an elegant, towering ring of neoclassical buildings that sits at the heart of London’s financial district – formed a key part of Rodriguez’s daily duties.
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Jul 28, 2023 |
theguardian.com | Jack Shenker
It takes a lot to frighten Zee. The 35-year-old father of two rarely gets flustered: not when he first set out on the 4,000-mile journey from his family home in Pakistan to the UK more than a decade ago; not during the years he spent struggling for survival on the fringes of Britain’s formal economy; not when the Home Office threatened to deport him, plunging his young family into uncertainty. But the cold, foggy, final hours of 24 January this year – they felt different.
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There are almost three million landlords in the UK - more than all of the NHS staff, care workers, and teachers combined. Landlordism is our national industry, and it is long overdue a reckoning. My review of @NickBano's 'Against Landlords', for the @LRB https://t.co/FSlBz1D6NL
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