They're moving in! Lovely to drop in to catch up with James, his is the first family to move into @yorspace.bsky.social 's almost-finished first co-op housing project. If only @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social could unlock the funding for many more projects like these...
Preserving trees would reduce developable site area, no doubt. But as the site was last used as a caravan park, presumably caravan pitches could become sites.
I don't really have a dog in the race. Just aware of friends who feel passionately about this.
As you probably know, there's an alternative version of the story of this site with an active local conservation group campaigning to save the numerous mature trees in an otherwise treeless part of the city. Development could have been framed to preserve these.
Collapsing birthrate requires Japan to admit increasing numbers of immigrants, who experience the same right wing racism in Japan as in UK - but more so.
Big pro-Palestine demo in central London thisavo. Very diverse demographic. Black, white, Asian, Muslim and Christian. Also big Jewish presence. Don't let anyone tell you Palestinian demos are anti-Semitic. Lots of severe criticism of Israel but I never saw or heard a harsh word about Jews.
As Toby Young points out, Black people are over-represented in advertising. He somehow forgot to mention they are over-represented in poverty, unemployment and homelessness statistics too.
Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost
This is a question I shall put to Lt General Richard Nugee at the National Emergency Briefing where he will be speaking on climate and national security.
I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.
Particularly troubling on the light of the failure to release the report by the Joint intelligence Committee on the perceived security threats of climate change.
When I was in southern France last year, the crops had failed to the extent that a neighbouring farmer, seeing which way the wind was blowing, had switched from tomatoes to Spirolina, a famine crop. Desertification creeps northwards…
That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...
A whole list of dodo policies from the Tories, including ending stamp duty, banning doctors from striking, slashing immigration, cutting government borrowing and this one, none of which would survive a reality check.
Happily, it seems increasingly clear that none will never asked to.
Ms Badenoch told us "There are now more than half a million civil servants. ...Is Govt working a third better for you? I don’t think so... We are going to cut the civil service back to where it was in 2016." FACT: the whole increase occurred since Brexit. Under *Conservative* governments.
The Japanese economy is being progressively crippled by massive labour shortages. The AVERAGE age of Japanese farmers is 68 and takeaway food delivery drivers are often in their 80's
Hard lessons and unpleasant measures are on the way and the UK economy isn't far behind.
Well the Torygraph would say that, wouldn't it. However, recent research in Japan shows what happens to an advanced economy with a declining birthrate and low inward migration.
The financialisation of the UK housing market has become a key factor in the country's widening levels of inequality and its lethargic economy. Stamp duty provides a small brake on speculation and unearned wealth accumulation, but the Tories want even this to go.
I once had my hair cut by a very competent you eastern European woman at a barbers in a London underground station. I explained for several minutes how I would like it cut and she followed my instructions assiduously. When she had finished I asked what the style was called and she replied "number 8"
My favourite haircut was when I went to the brilliantly-named Ryan Hair in Victoria and asked for a grade 0 all over, and the eastern European lady looked shocked and said "are you sure? You will look like egg."
