Joe Giddings

I would like to be able to say that this is only a #Lewisham problem but I moved from #Southwark and it was almost as bad there.

This picture was outside my last flat

I hate to see it and I hate to say it, because I love this city, but there is shit everywhere in London.

I know that this is mundane.

But its this shit that is grinding people down right across the country.

Week in week out. Walking past piles of shit to get to your front door.

These were in late January and December

We recently had a single recycling bin provided (for a block of 20 flats)

But the address was not added to the recycling collection round because 4 weeks later it has never been collected.

So guess what happens?

This one was 2 weeks ago:

Last year I moved to #Lewisham and my god, the waste management is bad. These photos are 1 week apart, outside my front door.

Every single week the bins overflow, foxes get at the contents.

Flytipping is a twice weekly occurence.

Old mattresses, smashed up sofas, dirty nappies.

The US Israel war on Iran is raising gas prices and you will feel this in your pocket.

Our dependency on global fossil fuels, and their cost, hurts us, again.

Green surge was inevitable now the “wasted vote” argument no longer holds.

Labour will need to offer positive reasons to think again rather than simply saying Greens couldn’t win an election.

And it will be even more funny if the first Government led by a party other than labour or the conservatives, is the Greens 💚 and not Reform

YouGov has the Greens in second place for the first time

81 homes in Nantes, designed by Atelier Ramdam. Built in timber with external walls from hemp straw (hemp shivs) & lime. This material is usually sprayed or poured on-site. In this case the hemp panels were prefabricated in the carpenter's workshop and lifted in place.

Completed 2025.

81 homes in Nantes, designed by Atelier Ramdam. Built in timber with external walls from hemp straw (hemp shivs) & lime. This material is usually sprayed or poured on-site. In this case the hemp panels were prefabricated in the carpenter's workshop and lifted in place.

Completed 2025.

Hannah Spencer's victory speech this morning is worth watching in full.

Fantastic, straight talking, highly effective political communication

Congratulations Hannah @greenpartyhan.bsky.social

Looks great!! 😃

Great news! Any further info you can share about the project?

I've missed this. That sweet feeling of hope

There's a lot of decent news social housing built from timber in Barcelona!

Another senior London Labour councillor joins Greens as wave of defections continues James McAsh blamed Labour becoming ‘intolerant of anyone pushing for progressive change’ for his defection

Meanwhile in South London, another defection from Labour to Green, this time in Southwark. Added to Lewisham (where I live), Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Barking and Dagenham.

These councillors all know what's coming in May: Green surge, Labour wipeout. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Yes but in a very different parliament. In a parliament flooded with reform charlatans, propped up by what remains of the conservative party - I wouldn't be so sure they won't succeed

46% of middle class people in the UK think that they are working class

Life on the island

Nigel Farage unveils Reform UK frontbench team and warns over dissent Leader says move should end claims of one-man band and shows party is ‘creating a machine for government’

Let's not downplay how dangerous & regressive this is from Reform UK:

"Tice, a longtime sceptic of net zero policy, pledged to end what he called the “madness” of clean and renewable energy, to focus instead on offshore oil and gas and fracking."

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage unveils Reform UK frontbench team and warns over dissent Leader says move should end claims of one-man band and shows party is ‘creating a machine for government’

Let's not downplay how dangerous & regressive this is from Reform UK:

"Tice, a longtime sceptic of net zero policy, pledged to end what he called the “madness” of clean and renewable energy, to focus instead on offshore oil and gas and fracking."

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nicolas Hugoo Architecture, Pierre-Romain Guedj, Charly Broyez, 11H45 · 36 Social flats Volumetry serving the urban project This parallelogram-shaped lot necessitated the present building with its sharp angle. The location and volumetry of the project seek to soften this angularity by pl...

a gorgeous 8-story single stair social housing development in paris w/ flats and maisonettes from 1-3 bedrooms.

great stuff. stunning interiors.

divisare.com/projects/551...

I would point out the crucial difference between planning policy and regulation. Whilst Environmental Impact Assessments might be required by planning policy, this is not regulation. And the Building Regulations themselves are very weak on environmental - they only cover energy use of buildings

Yes, I saw and it's a great article. But I still disagree with that claim, and I spend much of my time looking at this stuff! In the years since Brexit, the EU has moved much faster on environmental regulations for new buildings. In fact it is the UK that has fallen behind

How London unwittingly killed housebuilding A perfect storm of policy and regulatory headwinds has slowed new construction to a trickle

This is a good piece but @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is incorrect when he says the UK has:

"enhanced environmental regulations more stringent than those in other European countries"

In fact the opposite is true. UK's env. regulations for new builds are v. weak

www.ft.com/content/05fa...

The author is simply wrong when he says this, European environmental regulations are much stronger:

"Adding to these are enhanced environmental regulations that are far more stringent than those in other European countries and levies requiring developers to invest in local infrastructure."

The biggest threat to our national security is the US.

China's emissions have peaked, their renewables rollout is charging ahead.

Meanwhile the USA backslides, it's emissions will continue to grow.

As a result, we are all less safe. The US is the threat.

New study on pan-European wood value chains reveals great potential to increase long-term carbon storage through redirecting and cascading timber use A material flow analysis of European wood value chains, and modeling of strategies to redirect wood use, maximising carbon storage and high-quality timber use.

Here's more www.metabolic.nl/news/maximiz...

Last week Metabolic published a report which has reinvigorated the debate on how much harvested wood is eventually wasted by being burnt for energy or used in short term products (think packaging)

This material flow diagram highlights the scale of the problem

All of this was wilfully ignored by the Labour Party - by the Prime Minister himself - when Mandelson was brought into Government in 2024