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Ian Hunt

@ianhunt.bsky.social
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art, architecture, environment & politics | former UKHE worker | GPEW (but here as a civilian) | chief distractions: novels, poetry, botany, buildings | he/him | Green Light (2006)

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Work Rights Centre @workrights.bsky.social · 12h
The new Skills for Care report on the ‘State of the adult social care sector and workforce in England’ is out now. Our CEO Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol said: “The Skills for Care report found growth in the adult social care workforce is slowing and that international recruitment has significantly dropped.
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 13h
Thanks Kate. I love that book, which aside form being one of the few novels to record this form of housing, totally nails certain specimens of male poet!
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 14h
Middlemarch, Cranford, Muggleton . . .
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 14h
How many of these reviewers for the new open access Architectural History are here? Let's see. Gillian Darley @gmdarksky.bsky.social is, writing on Andrew Saint's last book, and Alistair Fair, @alistairfair.bsky.social on England's suburbs.
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 14h
It does -- there's a section on the important suburban examples including some I have not yet visited. Holly Lodge is on one of our fairly regular walks.
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 14h
Fairly rare that I write much (been busy) - but here is a review of Emily Gee's excellent book Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Working Woman, published by @livunipress.bsky.social #ArchitecturalHistory #Housing architecturalhistoryjournal.com/articles/10....
Cover of Emily Gee's book showing a cubicle in Ada Lewis House with single bed, institutional bedspreas, chair, washstand, an open window
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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
if you do ever happen to make it to Cambridge, say hello :)
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Planning to go to this. Afterwards we repair to the bar.
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Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Keep your eyes on #India. #Delhi was forced into lockdown because the govt didn't want students and Gen X protesting and making noise about 130 Million people who were stripped of their right to vote. But the cockroaches have persisted, and will continue to do so. #CJP #Protests aje.news/1yoy6z
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Modi is in trouble
The CJP protests sweeping through the country have exposed India’s hollowed-out democracy.
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 12/10/2026
But heat pumps are a form of defence spending, right? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Cllr Benali Hamdache @greenbenali.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Cutting heat pump subsidies to fund the military Digging for new oil and gas in the North Sea Labour’s greenward turn didn’t last long did it? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Hi Nayland -- I recently came across the complete manuscript of Stuart Morgan's interview with you, before it was edited (I am his literary exec). It's long! I can photograph it and send it to you if you like. Message me with your email..
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thanks for your reporting on this.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
📌 ICYMI — Green Party Would Force Daily Mail Owner to Sell Up Papers — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Zack Polanski's party also backs plans to force media companies to operate under a licence granted by a regulator
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Green Party Would Force Daily Mail Owner to Sell Up Papers
Zack Polanski's party also backs plans to force media companies to operate under a licence granted by a regulator
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I should have said: please share. #UKDemocracy #PoliticalFunding #LocalElections
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This petition describes an existing and worsening aspect of how political parties are funded. A party of extreme wealth can do direct mail to substitute for consistent member activity at local level, which is the lifeblood of democracy.
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Last weekend I raked our small meadow on wildlife site/community garden. Clay soil. Have never seen such a small amount of vegetation growth in one year. I had to use the plastic leaf rake not the pretty wooden one which always makes me feel a bit Marie-Antoinette. #meadows #grasslands
meadow on clay soil, raked into lines, two rakes, one plastic, one wooden, in sunlight
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Interesting, nuanced account of what may lie ahead after the by-election, and how the positive possibilities for pressure by the Green Party remain. By Russell Warfield. @russellwarfield.bsky.social . www.opendemocracy.net/polanskis-gr...
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Polanski’s Greens created prime minister Burnham. Holborn could yet undo him
Labour is celebrating the by-election result, but it must not misread a tight win for a total victory
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Grim. Another tom Watson up to no good
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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Newly elected Greens doing great stuff on housing 👏 Lewisham Council's new strategy includes: 🤝 Zero-cost land to community-led orgs on condition they build social housing 🔐 Putting that land into community land trusts, locking in affordability. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Free land for those who will build social homes on it. Is this the radical solution to the UK’s housing problem? | Phineas Harper
A bold south London initiative to give land to community groups rather than private developers could transform the system, says writer Phineas Harper
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ActionAid UK @actionaiduk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Gaza ceasefire exists in name only, say 100 organisations A year after the ceasefire agreement, 100 humanitarian, human rights and civil society organisations say the ceasefire exists in name only, with Israeli forces continuing to kill and injure Palestinians daily. bit.ly/4hEQzEg
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Gaza ceasefire exists in name only, say 100 organisations
One year since the ceasefire agreement, more than 1,400 people have been killed by Israeli forces inGaza, nearly two million still need shelter, not a single hospital is fully functioning, and 1.4 mil...
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Charl Blignaut @poptartology.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Plaatje’s legacy is compelling also in that it merged insights and elements from across knowledge systems, languages and creative practices, which he put in conversation with each other." - by Janet Remmington theconversation.com/sol-plaatje-...
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Sol Plaatje at 150: why a pioneering South African change-maker still inspires today
Plaatje’s friends called him a ‘walking library’ because he read extensively and engaged with a wide set of ideas to help form his worldview.
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Markman Ellis @markmanellis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Searching for Sancho Roundtable with Nicole N. Aljoe, Olly Ayers, Libby Collard, and Markman Ellis. Performance by countertenor Reginald Mobley and Brandon Acker. 6pm Monday 26 October. The London Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB Tickets: tinyurl.com/2ne8x3a3
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 06/10/2026
Latest: Two charities associated with the world’s largest far-right Hindu group have raised more than US$24.4 million over a five-year period through US grants that allow the donor to be anonymous, Bellingcat can reveal: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/10...
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US DAFs Donate Millions to Groups Linked to India’s Far-Right
Donor-advised funds allow individuals and foundations to give money to charities while remaining anonymous.
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🚨 New on Substack: Post-War Housing in Hackney: ‘Far removed from the pre-war conception of “council flats”' municipaldreams.substack.com/p/post-war-h...
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Post-War Housing in Hackney: ‘Far removed from the pre-war conception of “council flats”‘
The drive towards high-rise housing which began in the late 1950s is often crudely represented as evidence of the inhumanity of architects and planners and the megalomania of their local authority ena...
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The 7th Oct was the biggest single-day massacre in the modern history of Palestine/Israel. It was followed by the most lethal campaign in the history of the country. In the last three years, Israel inflicted a 7 Oct on Gaza every three weeks on average (in absolute terms; more in relative terms).
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A rare image of me, on the right, in the 1980s, with my American pal David in big glasses We are, notionally, at a cafe in Paris. I am wearing a knitted slipover I got cheap at Harrods. By Su Parker, whose hand is on the left.
Etching, cafe scene, man in glasses left, man in jumper centre, hand of woman reaching for cafe au laiit.
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I look forward to it. I follow you here because of the 1790s -- it's interesting to read about where things started.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gene-editing a single species of butterfly to resist pesticides is #solutionism at its worst: ARIA's "moonshot" programme is truly detached from the reality of #PlanetaryBoundaries and the #NatureCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reading Group - save the date - we meet online 7pm GMT, 25th Nov. 2026. *Friends and Relations* is our book choice. Link to follow. #bowenreadinggroup #Bowensociety
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is incredibly vivid, and clear-eyed. Have you continued it to a later stage?
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
these are so evocative in their yellow grey quiet prettiness and liveliness - remembering now that Alan Powers has done a serious book on pattern that I mean to read (on Enid Marx)
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#SurfaceStudies
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interesting . . . I have never seen or read his plays. His reception as a writer globally seems to have been considerable but also uneven. His becoming 'official soviet writer' complicated things, but I'm always interested in how people hear (or don't hear) about writing.
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September #reading Maxim Gorky, My Childhood, 1913, tr Ronald Wilks Holly Pester, Cafés, 2026 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Secure the Base, 2016 Ghazal Mosadeq, If; The Book of Advice, bith 2026 tripwirejournal.com/wp-content/u... Thomas Holcroft, The Adventures of Hugh Thomas, 1797
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
/ which is evidence of a widespread mid C20 influence. My Childhood, considered alone, is an exceptional and life-filled book and a part of a wider European moment of finding ways to say goodbye to the C19.
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is surprising to me that Gorky has so rarely come up in conversations I've had about reading over the years. Finally made a start on what seems to be his most read work in translation, and will continue. My interest was awakened by what Alex La Guma and Maya Angelou wrote about him /
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
September #reading Maxim Gorky, My Childhood, 1913, tr Ronald Wilks Holly Pester, Cafés, 2026 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Secure the Base, 2016 Ghazal Mosadeq, If; The Book of Advice, bith 2026 tripwirejournal.com/wp-content/u... Thomas Holcroft, The Adventures of Hugh Thomas, 1797
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Study day on architecture magazines, 7 November. I can't be at this -- it looks good. Alan Baxter Gallery, Farringdon #ArchitecturalHistory
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
André Gide was enthusiastic about it -- a bit too much perhaps. What was he hiding?
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am not given to hyperbole when it comes to university industrial relations, but this feels like an existential event. The heart of the university is being torn out, with long-lasting consequences. These strikes are a last-ditch attempt to stop that. Will anyone listen?
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Steve Hyndside @stevehyndside.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A reminder that there are some INCREDIBLE comms roles going with @greenparty.org.uk at the moment - including a chance to work directly with the amazing @mothinali.bsky.social & @rachelmillward.bsky.social greenparty.org.uk/get-involved...
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Work for The Green Party
Come and work for the Green Party for real hope and real change. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities, in particular those that are currently under-represented within our staff t...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The UK’s annual contribution to the World Food Programme (WFP) Palestine fell from $18m (£13.6m) in 2024 to $9.3m (£7m) last year and just $4m (£3m) this year, The i Paper has learned"
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An intriguing selection of twelve debut publications of short stories by @davidcollard.bsky.social starting with modernwasm (Joyce, Lawrence, Beckett) through to writers working now, and finding space for VS Pritchett in between.
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Yarri Kamara @yarrikamara.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For those in central Italy, I will be speaking at Internazionale's Ferrara Festival on Thomas Sankara's legacy. The festival from 2-4 October has a great lineup of speakers, including Pankaj Mishra, Igiaba Scego and Lea Ypi. Full programme here: www.internazionale.it/festival/pro... #Sankara
Event announcement for "Un'utopia africana" part of Internazionale's Ferrara Festival, with photo of one of the speakers, Yarri Kamara.
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Radical Anthropology Autumn programme Tuesday evening, 18:30 (London) LIVE in Daryll Forde, Room 230 2nd Floor, UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW and ZOOM ID 948 6108 7055 passcode Wawilak Sept 29 The science of mythology: 'The Sleeping Beauty' and other tales Chris Knight
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bloch had connections with France (the Delaunays) well as with German expressionism. Got out of Germany with his family via Denmark (staying in next lake house to Brecht and Benjamin) and was interned as an enemy alien in the country he later became a citizen of.
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Went to the Whistler show at Tate Britain & met a friend who told me about the show in the Von Motesiczky archive gallery. Need to go back to it, but here is Martin Bloch's Afternoon in Bangor, 1952. Luminous colour through the closely even tonality. Brilliant. An underestimated artist.
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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We’ve found alarmingly high levels of PFAS “forever chemicals” in the blood of people living near a chemicals site in Lancashire. 49 people tested. 70% had levels in a high risk health category. The BBC, Times and ITV are reporting the findings today. www.itv.com/news/2026-09...
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