James Perry

A colour photograph of the metal and glass offices at 66 St James Street

66 St. James Street

1979-84

Rodney Gordon

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That's bleak.

I wrote about design in the regions...with some uncomfortable truths.

As far as the Town Centre goes, I think the LA is focused on plans to redevelop the Interchange.

Colourful master plan of suburban housing on the edge of Gateshead town centre

The exemplar neighbourhood. The bit of the right of the tracks is on site I think. Ample parking.

Gateshead town centre should be a highly desirable place to live (not a retail centre) that makes the best of it's proximity to good jobs and retail over the Tyne (is an unsolicited opinion that will never win me any work with the council).

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.

But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

It’s time to ban social media for the over-60s, restrict their screen-time and implement upper-limit age verification.

Tyne and Wear Metro passengers warned of price hikes despite £2.50 fare cap While mayor Kim McGuinness has made promises of cheaper Metro travel from a new cap on fares, the changes will actually increase costs for passengers taking shorter journeys

The @my-metro.bsky.social fare cap helps to simplify tickets for passengers, even if some fares may rise as a result. Ultimately, we need integrated tickets, allowing people to move seamlessly and affordably between Metro, bus, and rail.

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Things people don’t say: “Remember that nice relaxing meal we had on holiday. The one outside the cafe beside that lovely busy road?”

A newsroom of profound cowards

Yeah, it's the kind of thing Foster and Partners are up to... circling around Ukraine like Hyenas. Which is strange given they (and many others) continued to work with the Russian govt post-Crimean invasion.

The ghouls at AECOM never miss an opportunity

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

Hope it's not the case, obviously.

From previous experience of working with local authorities on skate provision, would anticipate any replacement to be dumped on the peripheries of nowhere. No lighting. And as far away from any housing and civilisation as humanly possible.

The Darlington nurses’ legal team included Bruno Quintavalle, a barrister who formed the ProLife Alliance - a former political party which found fame by bringing legal action (which it ultimately lost in the House of Lords) against the BBC in 2003. They claimed political censorship after the corporation refused to transmit a party political broadcast which featured graphic imagery of aborted foetuses. He was supported in court by Pavel Stroilov, who wrote in 2022 that “the West has accepted the notion that human rights are all about LGBT and nothing but LGBT,” before lamenting the way “dissenters against cultural Marxism” are “cancelled” in the West. The phrase “Cultural Marxism” is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory with its origins in Nazi Germany where a group of academics in Frankfurt, who were incidentally Jewish, were accused of being responsible for the ongoing undermining of so-called Western and Christian values. The phrase was used repeatedly in Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik’s so-called “manifesto”.

The Darlington nurses' legal team included a well-known anti-abortion campaigner, and an anti-semite.

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All sounds good, but until waste and construction energy is measured in carbon reporting, we can't really say with any confidence that we are reducing carbon.

Given the boom throughout 2010s in Univeristy estate building programmes its false accounting on the carbon impact that hides year on year increases for most institutions.

What we found is that (almost) all universities omit Category 3 waste - construction and demolition - from their carbon reduction plans. Instead focusing on operational energy, food waste and recycling (things that are already decarbonising or easier to reduce year on year).

What a dump.

And so the cycle begins again at Old Eldon Square.
Christmas markets gone, grassed areas reseeded, all fenced off until it regrows.

Many other European cities have paved public squares so they’re versatile & useable all year.
Greenery is inc. through trees & plants, not grass.

Not looking like this car dominated detached cack they won’t!

British police have killed fewer people in the last 100 years than American police kill in an average month.

Policing in America is an ongoing tragedy.

Special Report: Stripped Tees IT WAS to be the UK’s largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of...

As Tees Valley mayor Lord Houchen's defence of his deal with local businessmen crumbles, here's the Eye's recent special report on how Britain's flagship regeneration scheme secretly turned into one of the biggest giveaways of public money on record.

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Call me old-fashioned, but following evidence-based policy on reducing alcohol limits to reduce "killing off" pedestrians and other road users seems pretty sensible.

It's not actually obligatory to drink booze in a pub, plenty of modern non-alcoholic options.

Also let's improve walking routes!

Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent

Hey, are you still posting at the deepfake CSAM website formerly known as Twitter?

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The government really does need to pre-empt this, it is absolutely absurd.