Bob Melling

Obviously, when the council loses the funding for this project in 2028 the traders, and the pretend think tank, will happily stump up the money to fund a multimillion pound renovation of the market more sympathetic to their glorified jumble sale.

Cities are a stupid category, there are only towns and great towns.

Photo of a street stand for the National Rebirth Party. Four men stand behind a desk.

A crop of the first photo but focused on the man on the far right (haha). He's dressed in yer wee brother's idea of cool clothes. He's dressed like a Temu Nazi. He's dressed like the idea of a hateful wee bastard who thinks he's genetically superior.

I cannae breathe. Look at this cunt.

manchestermill.co.uk/why-the-mill...

Why Starmer won’t give the Carney speech The UK and Canada are both badly exposed to Trump — but in different ways

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Labour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain’s high streets, study finds Decay of town centres a top issue among voters especially Reform UK supporters and is fuelling resentment against Westminster

Labour keeps talking about saving the high street without naming the real problem. Car dependency. You cannot fix town centres while planning everything around driving. The internet is permanent. Retail only survives where footfall is dense, local, frequent, and cheap to access.

Labour risks election wipeout unless it improves Britain’s high streets, study finds Decay of town centres a top issue among voters especially Reform UK supporters and is fuelling resentment against Westminster

It would be interesting to cost a Potemkin town centre where 50-60% of retail units are actually a kind of museum, not holding much stock, just enough to allow people to look at stuff before they order it online.

See if it made these people happy. Probably not.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Huddersfield D.O. Door Watch: Day 15
They’ve painted it the right colour now

Nooo! 🫣

Victoria Station, Manchester, 1982 (MMU archive).

Andy Burnham’s Manchester and its rapid revival The city is growing faster than the national average after an economic transformation that started 30 years ago

A reminder from @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social that Manchester's astonishing turnaround was a decades-long process
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How can we be in Bradford? We have a lido!

The alternative timeline where Derek Senior's Memorandum of dissent was adopted.

Also, imagine the deep deep joy of the snotty dales dwellers having conniptions at living in Keighley.

It's always just a bit surprising this stuff doesn't matter to actors. I rewatched Ronin the other night and De Niro's character asks a question about Hereford, pronounced "Hear ford", to authenticate another character's SAS credentials.

Fascinated by the audiobook production for a highly successful series that results in one actor giving the main character from west Yorkshire a pronounced Durham accent. a different hack pronounces the name Niamh "Nee-yam" about thirty times in fifteen minutes.

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don't put it in your newspaper that i got mad

Maybe. But that's pretty much what was being said about Victorian architecture in the 30s -70s. About Georgian slums before that.

It's true, badly built, designed and maintained buildings are bad but tagging that to a style/material (raw cast concrete in this case) is silly and should be dismissed.

Nope, is good.

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And when it comes to accepting trade offs you can see from his GM record that Andy "Hard Choices" Burnham is the man for the job.

‘The most dangerous man in America’: how Paul Robeson went from Hollywood to blacklist The groundbreaking singer, actor and athlete became a victim of McCarthyism and saw his shining career destroyed and his legacy tarnished

A fascinating article about Paul Robeson, who performed in Huddersfield several times over the decades.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

West Yorkshire print workshop has a temporary space in Huddersfield at the moment and often has exhibitions.

wypw.org/huddersfield/

Maybe check if the sovereign design house gallery has any exhibitions on. It's in a odd Dudokish renovated foundry bathhouse on Queen street south there's a cafe with an exhibition space below. www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_R...

The New town (19thc grid below the station square) has some exceptional streetscape.

What you'll find here - Our Cultural Heart What you'll find at Our Cultural Heart, Huddersfield.

Massive redevelopment going on ATM which means the library/gallery has closed and the TBH the whole town centre feels like it's been mothballed for the duration
ourculturalheart.co.uk/what-youll-f...
I'd go to the Byram arcade, Heritage Quay in the university often has interesting exhibitions.

Grain of Terror Why is the Western world so afraid of reheating rice? Joe Zadeh reports. Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath

Fascinating essay on *why* some cultures are terrified of reheating rice and others just...do it every day.
The justification cycle - racialised thinking, call to science, appeal to long past and/or 'traditional' wisdom - seems universal for this sort of food story #histFood

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Good to know that in the post-apocalypse dystopian London of Afterburn someone from TfL still does the rounds keeping the bus stop flags nice and clean.

In Halifax this doesn't work because the Acca has been going for circa 400 years.