"It's a basic principle of tax design. If you want less of something you tax it more, and if you want more of something you tax it less." Gareth Hutchens dives into our #TaxShift & asks "Are we finally ready to have a conversation like that?" We think so. abc.net.au/news/2024-03-2…

Can't quite believe that I've never come across this extraordinary landscape south of Amsterdam before—apparently the product of peat extraction, which was used to heat the grand houses of the city. Now inhabited by holiday homes largely accessible only by boat.

"If you ask people what streets are for, they say cars. That's opposite of what they said one hundred years ago...Streets—venues of myriad public activities as late as 1920—were redefined as exclusive transport ways." —Peter Norton, author of Fighting Traffic.

“Sometimes the oppression which was done by the British colonial government was passed over to the Kenyan government” declassifieduk.org/britain-stole-…

When they called it Electric Picnic, they really meant … ELECTRIC. I’m going to be buzzing for a while. Thank you thank you thank you Ireland!!! 💗💗

Monck Street, Wexford. Ireland's first full street retractable canopy.

Dreadful decision 👇 rte.ie/news/politics/…

Natural dyeing of white cotton and other joyful ways to decolonise niamh-butler.com/journal/disman…

You can't trade your way out of a collapsing economy

Wonderful and harrowing map. Thanks Joe Haslam ☘ 🇪🇺

Today Taoiseach Simon Harris shamefully blamed rising homelessness on asylum seekers. He is deflecting from his Governments decision to lift the eviction ban last year on behalf of investor landlords. Evictions are the main cause of homelessness not asylum seekers & immigration!

Rising immigration levels not linked to homelessness crisis, says President Higgins irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

There is undeniably an "absolute link" between Fine Gael housing policy and homelessness. There's no votes in that for Simon Harris TD so he's blaming immigration. He's a nasty individual.

While government politicians parrot soundbites about immigration and asylum-seekers, a huge driver of homelessness in Dublin is family homelessness caused by evictions and the near-impossibility of finding affordable places to rent in the capital. irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

What architecture looks like when you take healthcare seriously Children’s hospital in Zurich by Herzog de Meuron

Oscar Niemeyer, Hospital da Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro, 1952 📸Juliana Bravo, Giampiero Tagliaferri

What if community developers had a right to buy derelict and vacant sites at reduced rates to develop non-profit housing with beautiful architecture? Scottish Gov have implemented this!

Can we imagine a society where the threat of being evicted from your home does not exist between authorities and citizens? youtube.com/watch?v=1CNeMJ…

The home ownership rate among those aged 25-39, once considered a prime homeowning age, has dwindled to just 7 per cent irishtimes.com/business/2025/…