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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

At Llanfairfechan tonight for the final Calan concert in North Wales.

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The New Town skiffle group pictured in 1960! Can we look forward to a wave of ‘New Tunes’ now that New Towns are on the agenda again in England? We need something as we are past the usual ‘decade + 4’ rule when music usually begins to sort itself out in a decade! 😉🎶🎸

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

So kind of colleagues and students to organise a surprise book cake for my 50th. Birthday today! Thanks everyone!

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Liverpool for Europe @liverpoolforeurope.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Join us to hear the inspiring Professor Michael Dougan talking about all things European.

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Stunning winter sunset. Liverpool 15.01.25.

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Misty morning meadows Liverpool. 15.01.25

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 jaunt to Eryri National Park for New Year 2025.

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

A few views from the Saint John’s Beacon in Liverpool before it closes indefinitely to visitors on 31.12.2024. Not the best weather but still worth it!

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Atmospheric Liverpool in the end of year fog.

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Did someone say something about supporting U.K. farmers? We look forward to seeing Whitehall crammed with tractors sporting EU flags and rejoin banners in the New Year! And wall-to-wall media coverage on the news channels and in the newspapers… 🚜🇪🇺

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

@livuniplanning.bsky.social Well done to all our Planning at the University of Liverpool graduates who graduated yesterday at the December University of Liverpool graduation ceremony! Students from all our programmes passed across the stage at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Seems that putting up trade barriers with our huge neighbouring trade bloc does not in fact make trade ‘free’, give us control or reduce red tape… Seems it just means endless cost, hassle, form-filling, loss of competitiveness and ball-ache. For nothing. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/sma...

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Tina McKenzie, policy chair at the Federation of Small Businesses, said: “The EU’s upcoming GPSR will be a real barrier to trade for some of our small firms looking to export to EU countries and those dealing with products crossing into NI.

We are deeply concerned that the complexity and associated costs of the new rules are leading some people to consider stopping export activity in Europe.

With the new regulation coming into force in less than two weeks’ time, the UK Government must urgently publish its promised guidance to businesses on how to navigate the new rules.”

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Humanities & Social Sciences, UoL @livunihss.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Calling all Modernists, Brutalists and bus spotters! Our very own @christina-c20.bsky.social played a major part in saving design icon Preston Bus Station. Learn all about it here bit.ly/3VnZgHF #AcademicSky #Architecture

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Great, the far left working with the far right in France to sow chaos… And as history shows that always benefits progressive agendas right? 🤷‍♂️🤔🤦‍♂️🤡🥀

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

At a time when local government funding and planning in England under a new government is in the news, this new chapter with @alexnurse.bsky.social, Sebastian Dembski, and Chris Couch takes a 'long view' on nearly half a century of regeneration policy in England. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Talking about Regeneration – some reflections on 50 years of policy in England

This chapter reflects on nearly half a century of urban regeneration policy in England. It begins by discussing the genesis of regeneration policy in the ‘urban crisis’ of the 1970s and 19...

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A complex and contested figure Mr. Churchill but the last line of this still resonates strongly today.

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Interesting contrast between the amount of coverage the news channels gave to the Inheritance Tax protests on Tuesday in the U.K. and that which was given to the repeated anti-‘Brexit’ protests - the largest of which had between 1.5 and 2 million marchers… If you want to talk about diddly squat…

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Alex Nurse @alexnurse.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

New paper with @oliviersykes.bsky.social on what Labour's early actions on Levelling Up tell us about the direction of travel for English Governance and devo. @livuniplanning.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Olivier Sykes @oliviersykes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

What a fail… How is the aspiration to be ‘Global Britain’ 😉 supposed to begin by cutting oneself off from the parts of the globe closest to Britain? 🤷‍♂️

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Mark Tewdwr-Jones @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Planning sometimes needs to be in the national interest even if the significant effects are local. Democracy is not removed in these instances. The pendulum swings to central govt & parliament, not local govt. Citizens can still have a role, making the case for new local services & good design

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