People suggesting conversion to housing don't understand the deep floor-plates of modern office space and that - while it is fine to seat office workers well away from any natural light or outside views for c. ten hours at a time - this would be unacceptable for human beings

According to the article, it's a skills issue

More from 'J.Sorel' on Keir Starmer: 'Look at what Keir Starmer has never wavered on. His constitutional reforms, drawn up by Gordon Brown in ‘A New Britain‘, will give the law courts broad new powers to strike down legislation; will create a ‘rights package’ (including welfare…

🔴 An asylum seeker randomly murdered a pensioner and tried to kill a Christian housemate “for the sake of Palestine” eight days after the Oct 7 massacre, a court has heard

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

'I am the conservative who Gets It [only cares about 2 or 3 causes with general social and institutional approval]'

Never seen that before

Surely one of the worst aspects of the steady enshittification of public space is the advent of bulk-bought royalty-free music. Why am I in Pret/the gym listening to Love Island bargain-bucket fake EDM pop !

Saw one of the other rats trying to gnaw through a weak point in The Cage this morning. Pure escapism!

Re quality of senior people at the Foreign Office

1/ A 🧵 on UK stockmarket - Today we announced a capital raise at a significant premium to the share price and an intention to delist from the London AIM market. Firstly, I am obviously sorry for the loss of liquidity/tax benefits that some retail investors will lose. That said,…

Note glazing bars

Industrialization before the industrial revolution.
Remarkable data from a Cambridge research group.
adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-39…

Map of population density in 150 years

The current regime is totally uninterested in governing and totally unable to think of anything other than increasingly desperate and embarrassing attempts to generate positive headlines. Goodbye soon!

The ethnicity pay gap between is absolutely massive in London (while a uniquely low percentage of white Brits live in London)

Makes sense of why being white and being well-off are often seen as going together in London