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Paul Frainer

@paolorenato.bsky.social
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Anglo-Italian. 2nd Gen Immigrant. Doing #Digital in #Planning and #Government. #Strategist. #Advisor. Pensatore profondo apparentemente 🤷‍♂️) On a #yoga mat, playing bass or dancing. ❤️ red wine and #digital #politics, #localgov, #policy #adhd 🇮🇹🇬🇧🇪🇺

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James Riding @jamesriding.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Definitely a contender for best list of Alternative Names on a Wikipedia page
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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TGE on Place-Based Impact Investing | Paul Frainer
I have obvious bias as a contributor but this is an excellent and timely report. We also now need to provide a read across to those responsible for delivering LGPs and new spatial investment/developme...
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Tentatively back posting here…. Has it livened up?
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snoop dogg is wearing a suit and tie and smoking a cigarette in a crowd of people .
ALT: snoop dogg is wearing a suit and tie and smoking a cigarette in a crowd of people .
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Niall Griffiths @niall2025.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Wow. Farage having a new arsehole ripped out of him across the pond. This is superb.
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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Anyone who believes flags can only bring people together is being totally naive. And has clearly never set foot in Northern Ireland. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Useful summary here of the legal issues around hotels being used as asylum seeker accommodation and whether or not planning permission is required. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/is-planning-...
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Is planning permission required to house asylum seekers in hotels?
Court cases have focused on whether using hotels to house asylum seekers constitutes a material change of use to a hostel.
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Martin Wheatley @martinhwheatley.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The people who banned journalists go to a different school.
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Social Housing @socialhousing.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
ICYMI: #ukhousing #socialhousingfinance
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Scottish housing groups call for ‘urgent investment’ of up to £9.2bn in grant funding
A report from Scottish housing groups has called for “urgent investment” of around £8bn to £9.2bn in grant funding over the next five years
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
You can’t put a minimum income threshold for refugees if you have banned asylum seeking people from working. You can’t expect kids fleeing a warzone to have school level English. And none of this will “stop the boats.” You need safe routes. Honestly, they can’t find anyway to defend this.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Tell me again about how nobody will ever vote for a Democratic socialist.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 24/08/2025
Revealing interview with a Medway Reform councillor, in the sense that it reveals he basically has no opinions on anything other than opposing housing. www.localauthority.news/p/we-live-re...
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 22/08/2025
Union Jacks and St George’s crosses are going up on lampposts across the UK. The Daily Mail called those behind it an “army of patriots.” But the truth is very different. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...
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‘Operation Raise the Colours’ Organised by Well-Known Far-Right Extremists – HOPE not hate
Union Jacks and the crosses of St George have begun to appear on lampposts up and down the UK in recent days. Much of the...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Israel is executing a slow motion Gaza in the West Bank. The Western media, as ever, largely ignore it. New post: www.owenjones.news/p/israel-plo...
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Housing Today @housingtoday.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Planning reforms are welcome but will need to sit alongside other measures
Paul Hackett explains what the Labour gavernment's policies are likely to mean for affordable housebuilding
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Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
It is indeed the case that London's economy supports those of just about everywhere else in the UK & has done for decades - not the other way round. In other news, dogs bark, cats miaow & grass is green. The point is not to deny it but to find the best ways to change it. Hurting London won't help.
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Radix Big Tent - RBT @radixuk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
RBT's New Capital Consensus responds to Government Pensions Review: Mandating pension investment in the UK is heavy-handed. There is a better way forward: “Explain Then Comply.” 🔎 radixuk.org/opinion/rbts... #Pensions #MansionHouseAccord #ProductiveFinance #LongTermCapital
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RBT's New Capital Consensus responds to Government Pensions Review - Radix Think Tank
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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Johns Hopkins is the largest private employer in Maryland.
Breaking News: Johns Hopkins University, a leader in scientific research, said it would eliminate more than 2,000 workers because of federal budget cuts.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Here’s everything you need to know about the Trump administration’s attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil — and what it may mean for other people too:
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Can Trump Legally Deport Mahmoud Khalil? What About Free Speech? Here’s What Legal Experts Say
Everything you need to know about the Trump administration’s attempt to deport the Columbia student protest negotiator and what’s next.
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...
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A British Trump tribute act could snatch power in the UK
Without a constitution for protection, British politics is vulnerable to its own version of extremism
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/03/2025
We’ll be able to trace it all to this disgraceful moment, this day of historic shame for the United States. We’ve changed teams.
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Trump Brings a Day of Historic Shame for the United States
Over the course of a single contentious meeting, the president departs the world stage and cedes the century to Russia and China.
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Why music should be 💯 integrated into all kitchens…
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WɪᴄᴋᴇᴅLɪᴢᴢɪᴇ @wickedlizzie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
#PWD ♿️♾️ are targeted for violence, abuse, bullying & murder at a much higher rate than non-disabled folks. We are also misdiagnosed & mistreated by those in the healthcare community. #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticVoices #GimpOnAMission
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I honestly don’t know how we have got up the space that this even exists… news.sky.com/story/trump-...
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Trump shares AI video of Gaza vision featuring golden statues, bearded belly dancers and Netanyahu on a sunbed
The footage, which the 78-year-old shared without comment, shows the war-ravaged territory transformed into a Middle Eastern paradise with exotic beaches, Dubai-style skyscrapers, luxury yachts and pe...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/02/2025
Palestinian authorities have begun operating 13 mobile desalination stations in Gaza, where Palestinians are enduring a dire water crisis after Israeli forces destroyed 85% of the enclave’s water and sanitation facilities. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
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Three children freeze to death in Gaza as Israel blocks tents, mobile homes
Official says Jenin is ‘uninhabitable’ as Israeli forces make preparations to set up a base in the refugee camp.
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This is genuinely one of the most interesting and extraordinary interviews I’ve listened to in recent years and well worth listening in. Worth familiarising yourself with some Syrian history first.. open.spotify.com/episode/2w3v...
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120. The New President of Syria: Trump, Palestine, and having a $10 million bounty on your head (Ahmed al-Sharaa)
Leading · Episode
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Thom Beckett @thombeckett.com · 09/02/2025
The news remains shit so why not enjoy this video of someone trying to clean a water bowl for tortoises while the tortoises repeatedly try to get in it? (Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DF0jAMl... )
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This should be very interesting. Big fan of #Theroux and he’s been fairly vocal in the past… deadline.com/2025/02/loui...
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Louis Theroux Returning To The West Bank For Latest BBC Documentary
Louis Theroux is going to The West Bank for BBC documentary 'Louis Theroux: The Settlers', 15 years after making 'Ultra Zionists'
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La Repubblica @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Germania, nuove manifestazioni contro l’estrema destra: in 200mila si riuniscono a Monaco www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/02/08…
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This is a pretty amazing list if crazy things that have happened this week…. Its not a short list either!! open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
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This Week in Democracy – Week 3: Shadow President Elon Musk in Full Control
Zeteo's new project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term.
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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The Excuses Made For Elon Musk
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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Social Housing @socialhousing.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Homes England partners with Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority
Homes England has signed a Strategic Place Partnership with Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority to bring more investment to the region and support local ambitions for housing delivery
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Can you even imagine Nigel Farage trying tov get his head around local government politics and devolution.... www.lgcplus.com/politics/gov...
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Farage slams cancelled county elections
Nigel Farage has criticised the postponement of county elections, claiming that Reform UK were the “...
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Courtesy of @catrionariddell.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/catrio...
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Catriona Riddell on LinkedIn: Devolution Bingo! So far, so good. Interesting to see Surrey get special…
Devolution Bingo! So far, so good. Interesting to see Surrey get special treatment - LGR to be fast tracked to allow it to move to a MSA (it currently only has…
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
@lewisgoodall.com doing a pretty good job on the new #Trump crazy talk on #Gaza this AM on @lbc.co.uk …
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I’d like to make a film using clips from existing movies. I’d need some kind of editing programme for a Mac. I have no idea about this world, can anyone recommend something? Thanks.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Oh look, the former president of Russia and top Putin ally Dmitry Medevev is totally onboard with Musk and Trump’s plans for USAID.
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The UK is in much more trouble than it seems to realise. 85 years of being able to rely (mostly) on the US being on our side is coming to an end. Even if Trump doesn’t hit us with tariffs, his policies will undermine Europe’s security, including the UK’s.
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Trump now getting in with the ethnic cleansing www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Trump accused of ‘ethnic cleansing’ with plan to relocate Palestinians
Hamas leaders say Trump’s comments ‘recipe for generating chaos’ and reigniting tensions
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Open Innovations @open-innovations.org · 29/01/2025
Help us and the Local Government Association work openly to find examples of where local government works better than centralised approaches. Read our launch blog to find out more and join in. #PowerOfLocal open-innovations.org/blog/2025-01...
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The power of local
Launching our new project with the Local Government Association
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The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
8.5 million adults lack the most basic digital skills. So how can we create digital services that are inclusive? Our new long read, supported by @healthfoundation.bsky.social, argues that it's essential to listen to the voices of people & communities. Read more👉 www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
Infographic titled '5 top tips for designing inclusive digital services with people and communities'. Point 1: Make it meaningful, emphasizes user involvement. Point 2: Share power and have an equal voice, highlights consistent participation. Point 3: Provide training and support, focuses on building staff skills. Point 4: Streamline the process, discusses removing constraints in engagement. Point 5: Make it business as usual, suggests integrating engagement
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Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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Paul Frainer on LinkedIn: #planning #devolution #reform #localgov
This will be interesting tonight… feels like low hanging fruit to catalyse this market to pivot in the direction of the major policy changes in #planning…
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