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Architects Sahar Kamaleddin and Nima Safdari are designing some wonderful mid-rise apartments using brick and tile in Iran This is in Urmia

Must watch explanation on clean energy by Greg Jackson on #BBCQT - also watch Tim Stanley squirm repeatedly when Jackson gives answers Greg Jackson, "We've crossed the rubicon.. Clean energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels" "Power from wind and solar is cheaper than power from

What these critiques never explain is what happens to UK industry if you do what they say and abandon net zero. The answer is you get a few more years selling 20th century tech (and higher emissions with it) and then your industrial base gets destroyed by clean tech imports.

The efficiency & throughput of trains is…staggering. Gareth Dennis puts the numbers on it here. If the Victoria Line was proposed today people would be screaming how ‘innovative’ it is! (It’s 60 years old). Not building more rail is rejecting a much better, brighter future.

Jailed for 26 months and banned from driving for just 40 months. The victim, a mother aged in her 40s, is left unable to move, speak or breathe independently following the crash. The system is so very clearly not working. bbc.com/news/articles/…

It remains hugely frustrating that there are successful government-backed green loan schemes that have been delivering domestic energy efficiency upgrades for years across much of Europe, and the UK still doesn't have one. businessgreen.com/news/4383499/s…

The £7.6m Britain has wasted so far today could have paid for a lot of batteries and electric blankets for rural homes at risk of power cuts

The UK is the only country in the G7 where the best jobs have become ever more concentrated in the dominant region.

Life or death on your walk: Why Britons are calling for thousands of new paths Shouldn't it always be safe to walk to your local school, doctors, pub, friends? Please have a read Mary Creagh CBE MP Sue Hayman Steve Reed MP Huw Irranca-Davies Ken Skates MS buildstories.slowways.org/life-or-death-… Slow Ways

We should absolutely normalise building slim 6-storey blocks next to single-family homes, where there’s good access to public transport Incremental Density, by Dubbeldam Architecture + Design

Iranian bricklayers are magicians Khayyam project, by Esfandiar Abdeshah in Shiraz

Graduate salaries have stagnated while the minimum wage has risen, leading to convergence between the two. Two decades ago, the median graduate in a ‘graduate job’ had a salary 2.5 times that of a minimum wage worker, by 2023, the typical graduate earned 1.6 times a minimum wage

Here’s what the Independent Inquiry said:

Cardiff university to cut nursing courses. Meanwhile England and Wales is around 50,000 nurses short. We presently recruit them from countries so poor, that the World Health Organisation tells us off for undermining their health systems. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

University crisis latest, and very bad indeed: Cardiff are proposing to cut 7% of their academics, and to drop a whole array of programmes including ancient history, modern languages and music. Predictable and yet still shocking. 1/4

There has been an assumption in much of the coverage of university finances, that it will be ‘low value courses’ lost. As I and others have said, the impacts will be much wider. Costly courses will be under pressure, as the proposal to close the nursing school at Cardiff shows.

Nice one United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory

The Phoenix is ace. If you fancy a film, maybe go see it here. It’s not the best time for the staff just now and they’d appreciate the support for sure bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

🚨 New research published today 🚨 For the poorest half of working households, income from work has increased & benefits decreased. But lower income families are spending a disproportionate amount of their income on Council Tax, which has become increasingly regressive.

You can’t bring back cheese or ham from your European holiday any more. Brexit is the gift that just keeps on giving.