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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Paxton Locher house (with glass roof closed) at #OpenHouseLondon

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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Re Your First Home - a reminder that H2B * Raised house prices overall * Helped developer profits * In London, raised prices, not supply * In more affordable areas, supply up but no price effect Govt will have to think hard about benefits vs lessons learned, as Angela Rayner put it today.

On the economic impacts of mortgage credit expansion policies: Evidence from help to buy / Felipe Carozzi, Christian A.L. Hilber, Xiaolun Yu / Journal of Urban Economics, 2024

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We take advantage of two spatial discontinuities in Britain's Help to Buy (HtB) scheme to explore the effectiveness and distributional implications of mortgage credit expansion policies. Employing a Difference-in-Discontinuities design, we find that HtB significantly increased house prices and had no detectable effect on construction volumes in severely supply constrained and unaffordable Greater London. Conversely, HtB did increase construction numbers without a noticeable effect on prices near the English/Welsh border, an affordable area with comparably lax supply conditions. While HtB did not help would-be-buyers in already unaffordable areas, it boosted the financial performance of developers participating in the scheme.

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Paul Swinney @paulswinney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We don't measure the most important part of the economy in official statistics. Every economist and policymaker should be concerned about this:

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Villager's 'Sedated (Spaced out)' to start Sunday. From the new album villagersound.bandcamp.com/track/sedate...

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SEDATED (SPACED OUT), by Villager

from the album NOWHERE FM: VIVA LA VILLAGER

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The #CharliXCX version of #Madonna's Danceteria oral history (references to Hackney Wick and MySpace now mashed up with 80s Manhattan) #FridayFeeling www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUzh...

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Madonna & Charli - Danceteria (Afterhours Mix)

YouTube video by Madonna

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Olivier Usher @ojusher.com · 24/09/2026

An opinion I semi-seriously hold is that AI text, by law, should have to be rendered in that 1980s-style robot font. You know which one I mean. I am now extending this to say that you should, by law, have to read it out through a vocoder. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmin...

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Westminster (typeface) - Wikipedia

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Isokon building at #London open house (@isokongallery.bsky.social sorry for missing you out of shot)

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why be inspired by the 80s or the 60s when you can use the Middle ages (or maybe it's the Tudor period?!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvl4...

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Troye Sivan - Party (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by TroyeSivanVEVO

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#Actress' track 'Overchord' to start Sunday. From the new album actress.bandcamp.com/track/overch...

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Overchord, by Actress

from the album Radical Frame

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Derin Denham @derindenham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New York Street with Moon by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1925

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Gabriel M Ahlfeldt @ahlfeldt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Spatial-equilibrium modelling now works directly in your browser. Choose a city, draw a policy on the map, and see results by grid cell in near real time. Here is a stylised Crossrail experiment in London. 🧵 sites.google.com/view/ahlfeld...

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

@ezracollective.bsky.social's track 'Someday' to start Sunday. From the new album ezracollective.bandcamp.com/track/someday

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Someday, by Ezra Collective

from the album Here Because of Hope

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The paperback is here, everyone!

Paperback edition of my book The Measure of Progress

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Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Policy Live 2026 is underway 💥 Still to come on our live stream: ⏰ 13:00 - Dan Tomlinson MP on getting growth in every postcode ⏰ 15:30 - Jess Philips MP on tackling violence against women & girls ⏰ 16:30 - Josh MacAlister MP OBE on governing a changing Britain Watch now: bit.ly/4A4igO1

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Leaving aside the uncertainty on the exact probability, can't remember seeing an astroid or nuclear cataclysm probability number close to this. Raises a few issues if representatives of a private company are making statements like this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Architectual Icons @architecturalicons.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sir Terry Farrell's great masterpiece on the Thames, Embankment Place, is to be saved for posterity, being listed Grade 2 today, with Adam who designs all our artwork being cited as 1 of the 2 experts in the listing. Check out our collection celebrating it: architectural-icons.com/collections/...

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

That AI agents have been able to formally verify the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (i.e. automate the proof checking) when this is an active research project set to take many years feels like a big deal to this layperson - even if FLT's truth not in doubt. xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/f...

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FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it

I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour later it was officially announced by Anthropic: one of their internal models, using the prove2.m…

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Analysis of #EmilyinParis on BBC Sounds' #TheGlobalStory: the total % effect on tourism is small, but it is concentrated in specific areas due to amplification on social media platforms. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The Global Story - Did Emily ruin Paris? - BBC Sounds

Can TV shows and movies reshape the cities we live in?

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Emilio Isgrò's 'Prayer for Europe' (2016) from his exhibition at the #Estorick collection (closes 6th Sept) www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A celestial journey reconstructing remembered 90s ambient from Brock van Wey to start Sunday bvdub.bandcamp.com/album/almost...

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[almost] Live From Space, by bvdub . Brock Van Wey

1 track album

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Blickrichter @blickrichter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

„Open-AI hat neue Modelle getestet, das machen die die ganze Zeit, weil halt niemand so genau weiß, wie Sprachmodelle funktionieren […]“ JA DANN IST JA ALLES GUT😬 podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/c...

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CN013 ApoKIlypse - Darum bricht KI aus

Podcast-Folge · Cybernation - Der Podcast für digitale Sicherheit · 11. August · 54 Min.

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A corner collection

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Emilie Flöge (1874-1952), innovative fashion designer who aimed to reform dress designs for women. Though not noted widely by history, she influenced the work of her companion, the artist Klimt and featured in his work #WomensArt

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wells Cathedral's Dragon in residence www.wellscathedral.org.uk/whats-on/myt...

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I was surprised to walk past this at the weekend in Forest Hill. I hadn't realised he had lived for a period in London. www.westminster-abbey.org/about/abbey-...

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John Davies @johnardavies.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Treasure Island's track 'Cosmic Rolling' to start Sunday. From the new album. manualsmiles.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic...

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Cosmic Rolling, by Treasure Island

from the album Holotropic Dancefloor Dreams LP

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Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨🎓 I wrote something about Number 10 North. Will it work? How could it change Manchester? And how will we know? maxnathan.medium.com/no-10-north-...

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No 10 North: will it work? And how will we know?

No. 10 North is the core of Andy Burnham’s devolution plans. Will it work, how, and can we track its effects?

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Katja Bego @katjabego.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Some thoughts by me in the ipaper on the security of the UK's undersea cables, Putin's latest wave of threats, and whether the UK forms a chokepoint in the cable network. (Want to learn even more about undersea cables? My book Deep Connections is out late September!) inews.co.uk/news/how-cor...

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How Cornwall's undersea cable stations are at risk of Putin's revenge

The Kremlin is threatening retaliation over the use of British-made drones by Ukrainian forces

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Soheila Sokhanvari, Conquest of the garden, 2016, Iranian artist #WomensArt

Artwork featuring a woman on a chair looking outwards in a garden with tiled floors and walls, with raised fists rising from the flower bed

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