If you live in Wales you should speak Welsh. Or are we not doing that?

Look at this charming social housing in Espelkamp. A bit of colour and decoration enlivens the area and gives it a strong sense of place. Any lessons to be learned here?

It is genuinely difficult to think of a politician that I have personally loathed more in my entire lifetime than this disgusting piece of shit, and that really is some bar!

Kenmure Street. Four years ago. No strangers in sight.

In 1968, Enoch Powell made his 'Rivers of Blood' speech. He was kicked out of the Tory shadow cabinet the next day. 2025, and a Labour PM makes his 'Island of Strangers' speech. We are living in extreme right-wing times.

Maddening thread. All this floor space is being sacrificed because they won't allow air conditioning to be provided as standard in new apartments.

Design for 14 social housing apartments in Paris by Boris Bouchet Architecte The curved courtyard is designed to retain a tree on the site (which would otherwise have been removed) Naturally - single spiral stair and elevator too!

Why do the Scottish - whose water is pure, fresh, publicly-owned nectar - drink more water than the English - whose privately owned water tastes like rust-funnelled pish? Hmmmm....

It’s a real sign of Scottish Labour’s decay that Sarwar’s leadership is yet to come under any pressure. Those who fancy themselves his successor can’t risk alienating the central party, while other sites of potential resistance have been totally hollowed out. Heads in sand stuff.

I underwent a moment of radicalisation when I found out Peel Ports make about a million year just for owning Ardrossan Harbour, while letting the place rot.

We live in worrying times. A supposed Labour Prime Minister cosplaying as Enoch Powell and the far-right on the march across the world. That’s why I’m raising funds to support refugees in Glasgow and Scotland. If you can, please donate here: justgiving.com/page/gavins-ma…

load-bearing limestone facade in new urban infill (France again).

Apropos of nothing I am remembering when the Hate Crime bill was going through parliament & there were all kinds of claims that performers could end up being arrested. Which of course they couldn't, because the legislation protects artistic freedom of expression.

Not long ago, when the bakeries were still operating, I went to the bakery—or rather, to the greatest struggle I have ever faced in my life. I entered amid more than a thousand people reaching their hands towards the bakery window. After a struggle that lasted more than six

What a horrible welcome that any creative visiting Edinburgh receives thanks to Edinburgh Gin. You have the money for an ad, but you can’t pay one of Edinburgh’s thousands of artists to knock something up for you? I lament how normalised this shite is becoming.

15 social housing apartments in Paris Concrete frame, with a solid stone facade and timber shutters. Looks wonderful, despite a compact and challenging site. Cost = €2.7m

An interesting feature of Scottish planning is that it occasionally allows ruined castles to be restored. The reason is partly that conserving a ruin is actually very difficult: once rainwater can enter the masonry, frost action destroys the mortar and the building eventually

Hiroshi would you like to go to the Park Bar