MichaelLondonSF
@michaellondonsf.bsky.social
semi-retired / activist on London housing and planning / UCL Bartlett / grandfather JustSpace.org.uk michaeledwards.org.uk
I don't follow people with empty bios.
I don't follow people with empty bios.
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PROFOLUS: During the 1980s, Bayer developed and sold millions of blood-derived Factor VIII products in the global market. To produce more supply, it broke U.S. federal laws that required screening out blood donors for infectious diseases.
How Bayer Spread HIV Through Contaminated Blood Products - Profolus
Bayer has been accused of spreading HIV and the resulting AIDS by selling contaminated blood products to hemophilia patients.
www.profolus.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
PROFOLUS: During the 1980s, Bayer developed and sold millions of blood-derived Factor VIII products in the global market. To produce more supply, it broke U.S. federal laws that required screening out blood donors for infectious diseases.
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To mark 35 years since the Channel Tunnel breakthrough, here's a timelapse taken from the back cab of a eurostar train. 50 kilometres in about 50 seconds.
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
To mark 35 years since the Channel Tunnel breakthrough, here's a timelapse taken from the back cab of a eurostar train. 50 kilometres in about 50 seconds.
TOMORROW TUESDAY ONLINE seminar on making retro-fit work 1100-1230 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-ret... HDCE
Making retrofit work for renters: Policies and playbooks, EU and UK
Join our workshop with leading housing and climate academics, industry representatives, policy-makers and campaigners
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
TOMORROW TUESDAY ONLINE seminar on making retro-fit work 1100-1230 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-ret... HDCE
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I'm getting old. Those of you who are also getting old... can we commiserate about eyesight? I think my books are getting bigger fonts because I can't see as well. I appreciate a roomy page with big letters on it. And I can't handle these RPG books and comic books with tiny fonts anymore. Can't.
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I'm getting old. Those of you who are also getting old... can we commiserate about eyesight? I think my books are getting bigger fonts because I can't see as well. I appreciate a roomy page with big letters on it. And I can't handle these RPG books and comic books with tiny fonts anymore. Can't.
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How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
The Real 'Benefits Street' Protecting Britain's Wealthiest
The sheer scale of outrage about plans to lift children out of poverty, by taxing millionaire homeowners, tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of the British press
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
How the right-wing newspapers still manage to dictate BBC coverage.
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
Almost all of the Beeb's big post-Budget interview with the Chancellor devoted to asking whether she is a liar.
Next to nothing on any of the big measures announced this week
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-real-b...
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Oh god THIS
I bought 2 fucking pillowcases. What more do you want from me?
My inbox is full of this automated bollocks.
Contact fatigue is real.
I sometimes miss creative marketing and research. Even the odd dm would be nice.
Do better.
My inbox is full of this automated bollocks.
Contact fatigue is real.
I sometimes miss creative marketing and research. Even the odd dm would be nice.
Do better.
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Oh god THIS
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More equal societies are fairer, greener and healthier for everyone .
Sadly, the UK is run by millionaires for billionaires and they just don't care.
#inequalityUK
Sadly, the UK is run by millionaires for billionaires and they just don't care.
#inequalityUK
📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.13 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.13)
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
November 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
More equal societies are fairer, greener and healthier for everyone .
Sadly, the UK is run by millionaires for billionaires and they just don't care.
#inequalityUK
Sadly, the UK is run by millionaires for billionaires and they just don't care.
#inequalityUK
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📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.13)
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
July 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.13)
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
❌ ⬆️ #inequality > ⬆️stigma > ⬇️interaction between those with and those without a mental illness.
✅ ⬆️ #equal EU countries score better.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
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Site of Regis Road car pound, industrial estate, recycling yard ... and before all that Kentish Town coal yard .. another film quarter. A rash of them
www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/11/28/y...
www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/11/28/y...
Yoo Capital lodges plan for £1bn Camden Film Quarter
Hollywood-scale studios and 485 homes to be built at Kentish town industrial site
www.constructionenquirer.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Site of Regis Road car pound, industrial estate, recycling yard ... and before all that Kentish Town coal yard .. another film quarter. A rash of them
www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/11/28/y...
www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/11/28/y...
At #yourParty has @zarahsultana.bsky.social come in for day 2? I hope so. One day's boycott sent a good strong message but she's needed and I hope she knows.
November 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
At #yourParty has @zarahsultana.bsky.social come in for day 2? I hope so. One day's boycott sent a good strong message but she's needed and I hope she knows.
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Between voting for collective leadership and voting to allow members of other parties *as approved by the party committee* to join, Your Party members have absolutely guaranteed maximum infighting and psychodrama over the next few weeks and months.
November 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Between voting for collective leadership and voting to allow members of other parties *as approved by the party committee* to join, Your Party members have absolutely guaranteed maximum infighting and psychodrama over the next few weeks and months.
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City Hall in Philly has a carousel you can see in the center of the courtyard
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
City Hall in Philly has a carousel you can see in the center of the courtyard
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
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Amazon workers go on strike world-wide. “From Germany to Bangladesh, thousands of workers walked off the job on Friday and marched against Amazon’s labor practices to push for better wages, working conditions, and union protections." www.commondreams.org/news/make-am...
Global Black Friday Strikes Against Amazon Target 'Techno-Authoritarian' Assault on Workers | Common Dreams
"We are joining Make Amazon Pay to demand the most basic rights: safety, dignity, and the chance to go home alive," said one Amazon worker from India.
www.commondreams.org
November 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Amazon workers go on strike world-wide. “From Germany to Bangladesh, thousands of workers walked off the job on Friday and marched against Amazon’s labor practices to push for better wages, working conditions, and union protections." www.commondreams.org/news/make-am...
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Never before in the history of me writing a blog post have I been more sure that a lot of people will be angry with me. Such is the price one pays for thinking that cars are actually okay, and thinking that getting rid of their worst features, drivers, might make them good.
November 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Never before in the history of me writing a blog post have I been more sure that a lot of people will be angry with me. Such is the price one pays for thinking that cars are actually okay, and thinking that getting rid of their worst features, drivers, might make them good.
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Having been in the depths of COVID era policy recently for the Inquiry, a very striking theme was how moat people were aghast at how little money was available through social security when times were tough. Now imagine being a disabled lone parent...
November 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Having been in the depths of COVID era policy recently for the Inquiry, a very striking theme was how moat people were aghast at how little money was available through social security when times were tough. Now imagine being a disabled lone parent...
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Ooops. The year is wrong. I just published it yesterday. Will fix.
November 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Ooops. The year is wrong. I just published it yesterday. Will fix.
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@tomforth.co.uk published this article in support of self-driving cars a year ago. He argues that, in places like Leeds, even though self-driving cars will make congestion even worse than now, most people will still prefer them to trains, buses or ebikes. tomforth.co.uk/selfdrivingc...
Self-driving cars in England’s big cities.
Self-driving cars might make England's big cities rich again. Maybe.
tomforth.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
@tomforth.co.uk published this article in support of self-driving cars a year ago. He argues that, in places like Leeds, even though self-driving cars will make congestion even worse than now, most people will still prefer them to trains, buses or ebikes. tomforth.co.uk/selfdrivingc...
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BTW. Calling someone who uses the pronouns she/her, “them” is DEEPLY transphobic. Especially if not followed by an apology when this is pointed out.
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
BTW. Calling someone who uses the pronouns she/her, “them” is DEEPLY transphobic. Especially if not followed by an apology when this is pointed out.
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the implications of Trump’s playing with tariffs. His book is for everyone who wants to really understand the mess we are in, which means – it is for everyone.” [3/3]
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
The Story of Capital
For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. ...
www.versobooks.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
the implications of Trump’s playing with tariffs. His book is for everyone who wants to really understand the mess we are in, which means – it is for everyone.” [3/3]
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
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His knowledge goes well beyond the generalities of commodity fetishism and capitalist exploitation of nature. Although often critical of Marx, he uses Marx to explain problems we are experiencing today, from 2008 meltdown to the return of rents and [2/3]
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
His knowledge goes well beyond the generalities of commodity fetishism and capitalist exploitation of nature. Although often critical of Marx, he uses Marx to explain problems we are experiencing today, from 2008 meltdown to the return of rents and [2/3]
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Slavoj Žižek: “David Harvey unites the impossible: a broad global theoretical approach to capitalism with detailed economic analyses. As every good dialectician, he knows how to recognize a general tendency in what appears as marginal accidents of economic daily life. [1/3]
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Slavoj Žižek: “David Harvey unites the impossible: a broad global theoretical approach to capitalism with detailed economic analyses. As every good dialectician, he knows how to recognize a general tendency in what appears as marginal accidents of economic daily life. [1/3]
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A year ago today we welcomed members of CATA (Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance) including @kamgadhok.bsky.social @barryjmjones.bsky.social and @safedavid3.bsky.social
to the wall. They continue to highlight the UK failure to protect healthcare workers from life-changing respiratory diseases.❤️
to the wall. They continue to highlight the UK failure to protect healthcare workers from life-changing respiratory diseases.❤️
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
A year ago today we welcomed members of CATA (Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance) including @kamgadhok.bsky.social @barryjmjones.bsky.social and @safedavid3.bsky.social
to the wall. They continue to highlight the UK failure to protect healthcare workers from life-changing respiratory diseases.❤️
to the wall. They continue to highlight the UK failure to protect healthcare workers from life-changing respiratory diseases.❤️
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There is no “cloud,” just someone else's computer—and when the cops come knocking on their door, these hosts need to be willing to stand up for privacy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data
Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But,
www.eff.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There is no “cloud,” just someone else's computer—and when the cops come knocking on their door, these hosts need to be willing to stand up for privacy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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