Beautiful. It must happen x.com/cmarschnerde/s…

Come with us to Clamart. A Paris suburb shows how to do regeneration people actually like: beautiful streets, gentle density, mingling uses, daring to be popular, layered with greenery, daily life on the doorstep. We could do this here in Britain .... .

Nicholas Boys Smith Clamart’s Panorama district is town-building, not just housebuilding: streets, squares, schools, shops, a new town hall, cafés, trees and a view over water...

Nicholas Boys Smith ...It’s gentle density: mid-rise mansion blocks, long windows, balconies, courtyards. Enough homes to matter. Human scale to love.

Nicholas Boys Smith The big lesson isn’t “copy Parisian architecture”. It’s ask people what they like—and design for that. Preference → pattern → place.

Nicholas Boys Smith Process matters. Leadership + a clear design code + multiple architects working to a common grammar = fast delivery and visual coherence.

Nicholas Boys Smith This isn’t “expensive beauty” It’s affordable materials, used with care & repetition. Style is a system, not a surcharge. Much isn't actual stone but reconstituted stone mixed & measured to look like lusciously white Lutetian Parisian limestone. This is the clever way to do it

I think there's a widespread 'background belief' people have that we couldn't even build the way we used to even if we wanted to - at least not affordably. Clamart shows that that isn't true. We haven't lost the technology.

At what point will the authorities take any kind of interest in how Russia bought one of Reform’s men? theguardian.com/business/2025/…

The clock’s ticking Nigel Farage MP. Nathan Gill will be sentenced in November and you have been silent on his Russian Bribes Is it because you’re implicated? #ReformRussianBribes

Loyalist threats that forced Catholic families out of a shared housing development in North Belfast need to be lifted. That's according to the Housing Executive. Police say UDA members were behind the intimidation that saw a number of families leave the Lower Oldpark area.

Kemi wants to talk about her Golden rule about addressing the Deficit and the Tories as the party of fiscal responsibility. #CPC25

Preston Crown Court. The trial of two men charged with Plotting an act of Terrorism has started at Preston Crown Court. Both men are accused of plotting an ISIS style gun attack on the Jewish community in Greater Manchester in 2024.

Jihad Al-Shamie pledged allegiance to 'Islamic State' bbc.in/4nDXHkF

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I just love these clueless Renée Hoenderkamp imbeciles with their 'Blazing Saddles' "threats" who don't understand UK can't even afford to fully apply its own TCA (& has dropped its UKCA) against the EU, never mind get into a trade war with it, thus fucking over UK exports even more

Grifter in Chief No MP should have second, third or twelfth jobs! The rules need changing. MPs get into politics, not to serve, but to pave the way to lucrative other positions. This needs stopping

Further concerns raised in Senedd over Reform's links to Russia nation.cymru/news/further-c…

The gifter. No suprise there.

Putin admits Russia shot down Azerbaijani passenger jet, killing 38 news.sky.com/story/putin-ad…