Nick Simpson

I like to think - hope? - that he believed in things once upon a time.

Excellent point. If you’re going down all guns blazing, that’s a great one to go down for.

M6 Tebay tree growing project 'changed my life' - BBC News A Cumbrian charity is helping people improve their mental health through a new project outdoors.

More of this please: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As a wider point, he really could just start being brave now. Make the unpopular decisions.

If it goes badly, you know that you caught all of the flak and allow your predecessor a cleaner slate to work from.

Screw it; announce a full reassessment of council tax.

I think this links back to the need for improved build standards.

Modern flats with well managed / designed shared circulation along with good noise insulation would hugely improve matters.

However until you can persuade people that this is what they’ll get, it’ll be an uphill struggle.

There absolutely isn’t the history of it here that you’d find on the continent.

However we need to find ways to persuade people of the benefits. Not just wider societal benefits, but the benefits to the individuals themselves.

Sooner or later we need to test demand for (decent) family apartments.

WELCOME TO NEWCASTLE GREEN PARTY Cllrs Musharraf, Chisholm (with guide dog), Peters, and Hartley standing in a park.

A headshot of Cllr Alistair Chisholm. ALISTAIR CHISHOLM COUNCILLOR FOR OUSEBURN

Welcoming Ouseburn Councillor Alistair Chisholm to Newcastle Green Party! 💚

“Residents tell me they feel let down by Labour — and I can’t tell them they’re wrong.

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At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline

Problem is, I suspect a lot of people outside of the US are knee deep in it with their pensions, ISAs etc.

I’m pretty limited in my understanding of economics, however I’m struggling with the idea that a crash in these investments wouldn’t have a much wider impact, or am I being negative?

Good luck to Labour persuading their remaining members to pound the street, knock on doors, deliver leaflets.

Extract their gold teeth?

Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Problem this time is, we no longer have enough national assets to flog off to create a boom decade.

Construction employment sinks to 24-year low Direct employees now falling faster than self-employed as costs bite

This is all happening against a backdrop of a crippling housing shortage. The system is utterly broken.

www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/11/12/c...

Well, what *is* being argued by the other side?

He wasn’t a ‘new’ Bond though. He was Bond at the beginning of his career. Essentially it was a sort of prequel to other films.

I appreciate that it’s all very muddy, but I do think that Bond dying is a problem.

Time to face up to this.

I know! Life good your end? Any exciting news? Busy season coming up?

Life’s good here. Just had a weekend away with friends, which was ace.

I’m more concerned about why it’s that shape and colour TG…

Building control giant Assent ceases trading Shockwaves to hit Building Safety Regulator approval process

This is not good
www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/11/04/b...

Number of architectural businesses in distress up by almost 20% There has been a significant rise in the number of architectural firms in danger of insolvency, new data shows

All while the country is in the midst of a crippling housing shortage.

The architecture industry should be drowning in profitable work.

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/number-...

In front of a Victorian terrace is a small garden containing a yellow table and chairs with sunflowers on the table. On the wall of the (overgrown/rewilded) garden is a small little free library with a patchy green roof. (Patchy because cats and pigeons sit on it!)

#sundaypixbooks my free little library which brings me SO MUCH JOY!

A wonderful neighbour made it for me after me trying and failing via ‘men’s sheds’ for about 5 years. Sometimes I hear the lovely conversations of people perusing the library. It’s wholesome. It’s joyful. Create or visit one! 📚

Anne Hidalgo: Transforming Paris into a Green Metropolis for a Sustainable Future Pic: Ms Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris (Source: ChatGPT)

“Since [Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social took] office, Paris has planted over 200K trees with a pledge to add 170K more by 2026. Urban forests are being created near landmarks like the Hôtel de Ville, Gare de Lyon, & Opéra Garnier, with plans to cover 50% of the city with planted areas by 2030.“

When we look at this massacre and many more perpetrated by the RSF, let's be clear who funds, equips & sustains them. It's the UAE. Yes, the same UAE that might own your football club, fly you on your holidays, invests in our national infrastructure. If boycotts work, we should be boycotting now.

No free bus passes for under 22s, says goverment The Commons Transport Committee recommended scrapping bus fares for young people in August.

It is not true “England cannot effectively subsidise travel costs”. Retired people get free travel. By freezing the fuel duty escalator we are subsidising car drivers, which compounds inequality. See more here: bettertransport.org.uk/media/groups...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A switch to a Proportional Representation system of voting is long overdue.

The current system can’t withstand the fluidity and choice within our politics anymore. This problem isn’t going to go away.

After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future

Do you think the VVD will relent on their insistence that they won’t form a coalition with GL-PvdA? Especially now Timmermans has stood down?

There’s a teacher somewhere that’s *really* not enjoying being back to work after half term.