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Buildings (mainly post-war) & politics. Insightful musings stolen? Procrastinator. Cornish/living in Edinburgh. Attempting PhD on New Labour and built heritage.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“If the wife is fit, you must acquit”
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Yeah, in Germany today, you can't even support far-right efforts to ban Holocaust memorials without someone calling you a Nazi! What is this country coming to?" (www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
"But Silke Schutz, 63, a baker who called herself a “staunch AfD voter”, described the Stolpersteine as “a waste of money, regardless of who pays for them”.

“There are so many victims no one cares about,” she said, citing people killed in traffic accidents. “We had nothing to do with the war and at some point it [remembrance] has got to come to an end. But when I express my opinion, I’m insulted as a Nazi.”"
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah, poor Justice Alito. Losing friends after delivering death sentences to desperate women across the nation. Sit all the way back down with this. And stop glazing him, CBS. We see you, Bari Weiss.
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
POV: it's 2010 and you're dead now, but you refuse to stop showing up for work
A photo of a large boulder with a plaque mounted on it that says "George A. Berry III, 1918-2010, I'm Here"
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
POV: it's the mid-1980s, your lucrative privately held industrial firm is in need of a new exurban HQ building, and you decide to get a little funky with it
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is just a terrible take. Large chunks of the US government have been destroyed and rebuilding is the first order priority to ensure people get the services they need. The second to make sure it never happens again. Efficiency? Nope. We need a Marshall Plan for the US.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundatio...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not much on this yet, but I certainly hope this reporting proves accurate.
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Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland @theahss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
⚡ Hidden among Scotland’s spectacular landscapes are the buildings that helped power a nation. On 15 October, Dr Harriet Richardson Blakeman explores the architecture of Scotland’s hydroelectric stations and the ambitious schemes that transformed the glens. Book: buff.ly/zEAwg4a
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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The government, banks, utilities and similar services MUST make it easier for those with Power of Attorney to manage stuff online. I find I'm having to do a lot of stuff by phone. It's like being back in the 90s except without the 90s infrastructure to help.
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨 Brand new post: high ideals, regretted compromises, harsh realities - a study of Huddersfield's housing and civic history from 1951 to the present ... municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/a...
Buxton House, an 11-storey block, designed by Bernard Engle & Partners with Bernard Kramer’s mural Systematic Sequence in Line and Shade
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?
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Marta O'Brien @archhistory.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hooray! Late architect Robert Hill's incredible Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 is back online thanks to a recovery. I think Robert would be happy that his decades of work have been preserved. canadianarchitects.org/about/
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The Recovery — Dictionary of Architects in Canada
How the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada was recovered from the Internet Archive.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
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Joe Scaramangaaaarrrggghhh!!! @joescaramanga.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Anyone thinking that Piddington is a lovely little village story and what japes, needs to watch this.
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New Towns Mark One by the late Elain Harwood, ed. @alistairfair.bsky.social provides the first detailed architectural survey of the ‘mark one’ new towns. ➡️ Read the interview with Alistair about the book on the LUP blog: bit.ly/HE-NewTowns @c20society.bsky.social @geraintfranklin.bsky.social
A blue background of a blue and white tiled building fascia with a clock on a blue sky background. The text on the image reads 'Charting the architectural history of Britain's initial post-war new towns: the so-called 'mark one' new towns.
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A horse is a horse Of course of course Unless you’ve been forced By a horse of course If so of course you can become The bureau’s Mr. Fed
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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Days apart. -Burnham doesn’t cap donations. -Reform get record donations. In addition: - Voter ID will remain (needlessly), it’s estimated that 400k were denied a vote in 2024 as a result - Proportional Representation not part of the “Representation of the People” bill making it an oxymoron
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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hitler turning to Marx and asking "who's this cunt?"
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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: We're delighted to announce that 1 Embankment Place (1986-91) in the City of Westminster, Sir Terry Farrell's Post-Modern 'Palace on the River', has been Grade II listed by DCMS following support from C20 Society. ➡️ Read more: c20society.org.uk/news/farrell...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
First on energy and now on West Bank settlements, the UK's Ed Miliband has emerged as that rarest of center-left Anglophone politicians: a guy who actually does stuff www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Ed Miliband has overturned decades of Foreign Office inertia on illegal Israeli settlements
Foreign secretary ends UK’s feigned helplessness with sanctions and condemnation of ‘ethnic cleansing’
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Important piece from a great rabbi, Rabbi Jeremy Gordon Do give it read if you want a more balanced understanding of our community - the JLC and BoD do not speak for us all rabbionanarrowbridge.blogspot.com/2026/09/an-o...
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An Open Letter on Settler Violence and British Sanctions
I’ve witnessed and experienced settler violence first-hand. On a 2024 visit to the West Bank, a group of rabbis, including myself and Rabbi ...
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW | On a shocking interview… ANALYSING JUSTIN WEBB’S INTERVIEW WITH ED MILIBAND ABOUT SANCTIONS ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...
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Analysing Justin Webb’s interview with Ed Miliband about sanctions on Israeli settlements
On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 09/09/2026
If you have the time, Ed Miliband's speech in the House of Commons is worth reading in full. It literally includes the words: "Holding British Jews responsible for the actions of the Israeli Government is antisemitism, plain and simple." www.gov.uk/government/s...
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Foreign Secretary Oral Statement on Israel-Palestine
Foreign Secretary's oral statement to the House of Commons on Israel-Palestine as delivered.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
History. Do you believe in historical facts? How dare you?
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."
New York Times:
Trump Honors 9/11
Emergency Personnel in
Washington
President Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to a volunter firefighter who saved numerous people. He also added to a disputed account of his actions that day.
Sept. 8, 2026 Updated 1:54 p.m. ET
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/09/2026
UK to announce trade ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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UK to announce trade ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements
UK to announce trade ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026
Yes, but there's a key difference. Biden needed Republican support in the Senate (and to a lesser extent, House) to pass his legislative agenda. Burnham has a huge majority in Parliament and the House of Lords can't stop him the way a Senate filibuster can. He could do both but he's vibing.
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LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Postcards of Newcastle's Civic Centre. The building, from the late 1960s, was designed by City Architect George Kenyon and has a strong Nordic influence. c20society.org.uk/100-building...
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In June 1934 the British Union of Fascists - the Blackshirts - staged a rally at the Olympia in London. One protestor after another was singled out and beaten up by the crowd. Here's how Ronald Blythe described it.
Description of the BUF Olympia rally, at which a series of hecklers were violently attacked by Blackshirts. The sadism, Blythe writes, reached "an erotic intensity". Stanley Baldwin's private secretary expressed shock and dismay: "It was a deeply shocking scene for an Englishman to see in London."
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 05/09/2026
It's craven, it's politically stupid, and it's morally wrong. Number 10 does not struggle to get Andy Burnham in front of a camera when it wants him to be there. Every minute he's not on show over this is the result of a deliberate decision.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They spontaneously turned up all dressed in black, wearing masks at the same time.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Andy Burnham is going to have to do a whole lot better than Keir Starmer in responding to masked fascists on the streets.
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Stephen Jensen @stephenjensen1953.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ed Milliband describes the situation in Gaza as "horrific" and states the UK must act more decisively. He's right. So nearly 3 years on, & 100k slaughtered, when will the UK impose full sanctions &:expel Israel's ambassador? www.middleeasteye.net/news/miliban...
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Miliband says Gaza situation ‘horrific’, UK must act ‘more decisively’
The foreign secretary said people on the ground in Gaza informed him about 'medicines being blocked, children dying while waiting for vital life-saving treatment'
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God @thegodshow.com · 04/09/2026
Thou shalt not ask permission from the Republicans, thou shalt just knock his monuments down, like he did to the East Wing.
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Thou Shalt Take Down All Of Trump’s Monuments
Throw him into the trashcan of history.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026
So, if I understand Nigel Farage's argument correctly it is: "Everyone I trusted and elevated into a position of responsibility is constantly doing crimes that benefit me but of which I somehow have no knowledge. I am a man with the character, judgement, and intelligence to run the country." Ok.
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Now James Orr has stepped down as Reform UK's Head of Policy after C4's report, questions remain for Cambridge – where he is Associate Professor. Byline Times revealed serious concerns about his activities there months ago. We all know there won't now be 200+ articles on him and his life don't we?
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Farage told Congress last year that he never bans journalists from his events. He spoke at the behest of an anti-abortion group, the ADF. It's ironic, and pretty revolting, that Reform banned me from its conference after I reported that three anti-abortion groups are speaking at this year's event
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Farage lies to Congress
His jaunt to Washington didn’t go exactly as planned...
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The Architectural Heritage Fund @archhfund.org.uk · 02/09/2026
In the 1970s, Clevedon Pier – once hailed as ‘the most beautiful pier in England’ – faced demolition. But, after years of campaigning, planning & fundraising, the Grade I Pier was restored & reopened. Today, it welcomes over 100,000 visitors a year. 👇 ahfund.org.uk/anniversary/... #AHF50
Project of the Week 34.A historic photograph of Clevedon Pier. Credit: Clevedon Pier and Heritage Trust.Clevedon Pier after its reopening. Credit: Clevedon Pier and Heritage Trust.Clevedon Pier today. Credit: Clevedon Pier and Heritage Trust.
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StephMac @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Compare this rhetoric with that of Mamdani, who continually expands services and addresses problems that annoy New Yorkers. We’ve had over 15 years of “we have to make tough decisions” and people are tired of hearing it when there’s little discernible improvement
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