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Gilian Macinnes

@gilianmac.bsky.social
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Town Planner, mother, Pluto owner🐕. Working in and for local government- management, infrastructure planning, Development Contributions. Views own etc and unless they are interesting ones of someone else 😁

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’re screwed www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s a badge of honour for @bylinetimes.bsky.social to be banned from Reform and Conservative conferences - like being banned by Russia or China, it says more about them, than the journalists. Also, so ironic that the parties which waffle on about freedom of speech are the most scared of it.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/10/2026
Israeli barrier cuts off water to West Bank Palestinians before elections aje.news/hl1cc7
Israeli barrier cuts off water to West Bank Palestinians before elections
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
if true this is bonkers for a party supposedly committed to defending free speech
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 29/09/2026
"More than 100 Jewish settlers went on the rampage in a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank on Monday night, torching buildings and cars, stoning Israeli security forces and preventing the return of a Palestinian family displaced by previous settler attacks." www.ft.com/content/4f56...
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More than 100 Israelis go on rampage in Palestinian town
Jewish settlers blocked roads, set tyres ablaze and prevented the return of a Palestinian family in latest surge of violence in occupied West Bank
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Martin Wheatley @martinhwheatley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BBC has been so often challenged about misleading usage of "e-bike" that one assumes they just don't care. Police don't have power to seize legal e-bikes so by definition those sold are illegal e-motorbikes. And, yes 🙄 police auctioning illegal items www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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E-bikes seized by police sold on at auction, BBC finds
Thousands of electric motorbikes are confiscated annually because they are suspected of being driven illegally or used in a crime - most are destroyed, but last year police sold at least 161.
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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm certain that no council will have budgeted for its temporary accommodation costs rising by 88% in just 5 years. So they'll be needing to make cuts to other services to pay for it. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
independent.co.uk
Temporary housing costs councils £8m every day in new record high
Over £8m a day is being spent on emergency provision, new figures show
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Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Overall - it will be a familiar story to anyone who lives in a similar building. Serious questions about the risk of how long it takes us to remediate; the control of interim safety measures and what is really being offered to residents with disabilities in these buildings
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Surprising this story isn't getting more coverage...
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Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotel
Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/09/2026
It won’t stop these reprehensible, cowardly pieces of shit attacking the RNLI, but here is a handy link to donate rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fascism on the streets of Dover
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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
For me I find the numerous "jokes" about how the millionaire could give them personally a few quid. Really undignified begging, by people eating in Claridges.
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Paul Smith @pmsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
For most of the last 20 years, it has been a given that building new homes is financially viable. For reasons including regulatory burdens and more general inflation, that is no longer the case. I've explained how that impacts planning for Housing Today. www.housingtoday.co.uk/comment/the-...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge
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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 31/08/2026
Israel’s Ben-Gvir storms Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem aje.news/n5dvlo
Israel’s Ben-Gvir storms Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Merseyside is nowhere near the Mersey, Tyne and Wear is landlocked and Lancashire has migrated to Cumbria. I’m so glad that we’re burning the planet so that people can do things like this.
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Gilian Macinnes @gilianmac.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
www.ft.com/content/f6b9...
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Far-right Israeli minister advocates killing ‘30 to 40’ Gazans each night
Itamar Ben-Gvir also calls for re-establishment of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian enclave
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
is The Monday Club making a comeback?
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Sam Stafford @samuelstafford.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Episode 178 of 50 Shades of Planning is available now via this link or from the usual podcast platforms. Vibes and Stuff. pod.co/50-shades-of...
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Vibes and Stuff - 50 Shades of Planning
Sam Stafford was in Birmingham recently and took the opportunity whilst there to catch up with old friend of the podcast Myles Wild Smith and new friends of the podcast Mike Knott, Bart Shirm and Beth...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/07/2026
GSK to shut historic Stevenage hub as it announces £1.9bn cost-saving drive ft.trib.al/KxPgjaz
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GSK to shut historic Stevenage hub as it announces £1.9bn cost-saving drive
UK drugmaker hopes new Cambridge site will bolster pipelines of medicines
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Britain’s largest telescope faces closure in science cuts
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Britain’s largest telescope faces closure in science cuts
The famous Joddrell Bank Observatory is reported to be facing closure. The scientific funding body that supports the eight-decade-old site in Cheshire hosting radio telescopes, is said to be consideri...
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Gilian Macinnes @gilianmac.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In Ireland …
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Sam Stafford @samuelstafford.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Episode 177 of 50 Shades of Planning is available now via this or from the usual podcast platforms. Hitting the High Notes - Richard Schofield. pod.co/50-shades-of...
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Hitting the High Notes - Richard Schofield - 50 Shades of Planning
This is another episode in the Hitting the High Notes series, which, if you have not listened to one before, is town planning's equivalent, nee rip off, of Desert Island Discs. During these episodes S...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/07/2026
A baby was rescued by her family after her home was set on fire by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. The attacks come as settlers and Israeli forces carry out extensive raids across Nablus.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
What an abomination.
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Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Nothing says ‘wellbeing’ like inviting people to sit and admire the consequences of poor design!
Benches facing brick walls.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 24/07/2026
Tory party ‘bans’ candidates who don’t back its human rights and net zero pledges ft.trib.al/6Q5KBLD
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Tory party ‘bans’ candidates who don’t back its human rights and net zero pledges
Chair Kevin Hollinrake says would-be MPs need to endorse leader Kemi Badenoch’s UK agenda
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Sam Stafford @samuelstafford.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
At the Labour Party Conference last year I said to Steve Reed that if he really wanted to ‘Build, Baby, Build’ he would make national development management policies statutory. He had no idea what I was on about.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is so, so bad. She’s taken the very narrow point that domestic drilling may result in oil and gas with a slightly lower carbon footprint than some imports and extrapolated it out to make sweeping claims about UK emissions increasing that are entirely false. So deeply unserious.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Small boats to UK now down 45% year on year to mid-July. The BBC continues to (mistakenly) tend to hypothesise a weather effect. It is neither weather nor UK govt policy. It is a change in EU-wide flows.
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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I dare Syed to say this to anyone who works in or with local government.
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Gilian Macinnes @gilianmac.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Let’s hope they take over SE Water as well
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Gilian Macinnes @gilianmac.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
SEWater - We're very sorry to our customers in the T Wells area who are experiencing low pressure, intermittent supply or no water today. This is due to a technical issue at our water treatment works in the area, ..unable to pump water to properties in the TWells particularly those on higher ground.
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AquAlerter Map by South East Water
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Sam Stafford @samuelstafford.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Auckland gets a mention in this @jburnmurdoch.ft.com piece about fixing the housing crisis. www.ft.com/content/8c91... Find out more about what went on there by listening to this episode of the @50shadesofplanning.bsky.social podcast. pod.co/50-shades-of...
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What is this if not foreign interference in UK democracy? There's an Elections Bill going through parliament. Time for an amendment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young
Exclusive: Controversial grants are part of package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
So Count Binface is pledging to do everything Farage doesn’t as a MP, utter genius❗️👌🏼 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 He will👇🏼 Hold weekly constituency surgeries✅ Answer all letters and emails within 3 days✅ Spend 10 days in Clacton for every day spent abroad✅ Outside earnings will be donated to Clacton charities✅
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Count Binface goes for the jugular with Clacton pledges
Count Binface seems to have already stolen a march on Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election by announcing some policies for the area.
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Royal Town Planning Institute @rtpiplanners.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
93% of local plans prioritise climate change – but more than a quarter lack a strategic climate policy, according to new research by the RTPI and the @thetcpa.bsky.social Read the findings: www.rtpi.org.uk/climatecrisis
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14/07/2026
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has fatally shot a motorist in Maine, the second ICE-related fatality by force this week. Protesters took to the streets of Maine, demanding accountability.
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Jules Birch @julesbirch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Expelling the bloke who wrote a book about how to win a marginal seat seems an interesting decision
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/07/2026
Israel’s military has attacked several areas across Gaza, with Palestinians filming flames and smoke rising over Gaza City. A nine-year-old girl was also killed by Israeli gunfire in central Gaza.
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Hilary Burkitt @hilaryburkitt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I have a lot of affection for Rail magazine after it became my toddler’s magazine of choice (ahead of the more obvious options like CBeebies). Now have high hopes this signals @jim.londoncentric.media levels of future success
Small child with head buried in a copy of Rail magazine
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Richard A @richardawkward.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
What, you mean he's just been pretending to be deaf? The little bastard!
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 09/07/2026
The slaughter of 16 5-year-olds and their teacher in the Dunblane Primary School, the injury of 15 more, was a cruel and senseless attack by a twisted man. This is unforgivable.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🔎 From the archive: What Connects Robert Jenrick to the Gambino Crime Family and Putin's Oligarchs? — John Sweeney 🔁 Relevant again: John Sweeney 6 years ago on Jenrick
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What Connects Robert Jenrick to the Gambino Crime Family and Putin's Oligarchs?
John Sweeney investigates the Minister's ties, not only to Richard Desmond and his alleged run-in with the New York Mafia, but to a law firm that worked for Vladimir Putin’s favoured oligarchs
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com
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"The noble Lord had stated, that it was unusual to refuse the Chiltern Hundreds, except on account of mental incapacity, or where proceedings were pending for the expulsion of the applicants from their seats. In this case, however, the House had decided that compromises had been entered into, which had the effect of obstructing the investigation of bribery; "
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Link: barcelonasecreta.com/en/sustainab...
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Goodbye to tar: Barcelona will test pavement made from olive and pine waste to reduce emissions from construction projects
The city council is seeking new approaches to create streets that are more sustainable and resilient to temperature fluctuations without altering the urban landscape.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Alarm over ‘extreme’ sentences for anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism
First amendment groups call 50-to-100-year prison terms chilling as legal experts say sentences unusually long
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/06/2026
A massive fire destroyed a sandal factory in Tangerang, Indonesia, after it spread to a gas storage area and caused the factory's chemicals to explode. Footage shows smoke billowing from the destruction as residents complained of respiratory issues. Police are probing the cause of the blaze.
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