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This is terrible. The bit about the Electric not being important on a national level says a lot about how Birmingham is viewed. Who outside of Birmingham even made a noise about this? We all know that if the Electric was in London there'd be mass outrage and it would be saved.

New in ‘how close is the government to building 1.5mn homes’ news.

in a real job, you’d get sacked for this btw

Khem Rogaly of Common Wealth on the nose, as usual! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

🆕 The Sceaux Gardens Estate, Camberwell Metropolitan Borough Council, 1959. ‘The most interesting housing scheme to come from a Metropolitan Borough Architect’s Department' according to the Architects' Journal ... municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/sce…

As a Columbia University faculty member, I am disgusted and appalled by the university collaborating with the Department of Homeland Security & ICE to detain CU grad and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. He is a legal US resident with a wife who is 8 months pregnant. Despicable conduct

71 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh. An 1830 villa owned by University of Edinburgh. In 2022 and today....

Israel doesn’t want Gaza to produce its own energy, which is why it bombed Gaza’s only power plant in 2008 & 2014 and consistently prevented its repair by restricting the entry of construction materials ever since. Israel uses Gaza’s energy dependence as a weapon of control.

📢 This month's Deconstructed podcast focuses on the Charles Henry Driver-designed Crossness Pumping Station with special guest Petra Cox and host Matthew Lloyd Roberts. On Resonance 104.4 FM at 2pm today 🎧🎙️

The solution to what’s called the “housing affordability crisis” does not lie in the market. It lies with making social-rent council housing the priority, as the Attlee government did. Funding should only go to social-rent homes.... theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

My comrade, DK Renton, while saliently arguing for maximum rents, makes the excellent and evergreen point that LANDLORDS are the biggest drains on the welfare bill, not disabled people. Housing benefit costs the taxpayer £35 BILLION ANNUALLY revsoc21.uk/2025/03/19/why…

Great thread on the perils of benefit cuts!

the thing about Jeremiah Wright’s sermon is that it was fucking hard

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An example of how "free market economics " fans don't understand economics. There is no subsidy in council housing, it pays for itself over time. If you reduce it, rents for private tenants go up, not down.

.Akala on knife crime

📢In the latest Deconstructed podcast, host Matthew Lloyd Roberts discuses the past, present and future of London's troubled Euston station with architectural historian Ewan Harrison🎙️🎧shows.acast.com/opencity/episo…

NEW: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University who was arrested and attempted to be deported by the Trump administration, receives his degree during a commencement ceremony at the university this morning. Mahdawi, wearing a keffiyeh, bowed to the cheering

Tickets are still available (although selling fast!) for a walking tour of Poundbury with Matthew Lloyd Roberts on the 7th June! open-city.org.uk/events/poundbu…