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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

Monumental hubris, every detail is jaw dropping.

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The equal opportunities version is Fleetwood Mac where they all took it in turns to litigate their breakups with each other on the same record

The Renters’ Rights Act is here — but the work is just beginning After years of waiting, the Renters’ Rights Act has finally received Royal Assent and passed into law. We’ve campaigned hard for this, and…

Proper good news today - the Renters' Rights Act gets Royal Assent. Citizens Advice see 200 people a day with problems in private rented housing. The act shifts the balance towards tenants, but it's just the start, as @tessthompsonca.bsky.social says here wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/the-renters-...

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Dropping one of these into your all-vinyl east London listening bar set for the ultimate softboi move

The challenge of energy affordability is very real, but rising block tariffs aren’t the answer. People on low incomes with poorly insulated homes or who need more energy for health reasons could see rising bills, while those with multiple homes or can install solar panels avoid paying a fair share

London is getting a Museum of Brutalist Architecture A north London school hall is to be restored to its 1960s appearance and become home to the UK’s first Museum of Brutalist Architecture (MoBA) after it secured a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant.

Commiserations in advance to the long-suffering girlfriends and partners of every nerdy centre-left man in London who will have to endure being taken around this.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lon...

Trump sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch for libel Lawsuit filed in Miami federal court comes after president threatened to sue over Jeffrey Epstein letter report

The girls are fighting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Resident doctors’ 29% pay claim is non-negotiable, BMA chair says Exclusive: Tom Dolphin says rise needed to redress real-terms earnings loss since 2008 and strikes could last years

Britain’s most militant trade union rides again www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Labour MPs launch major rebellion to stop welfare bill Amendment intended to kill off legislation that would cut benefits could be backed by up to 100 Labour MPs including senior figures

Ohhhh boy now *this* is a *rebellion* www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The government’s proposals for restricting eligibility for disability and incapacity benefits will cause significant hardship for disabled people

Join @citizensadvice.bsky.social on 26 June to hear from a panel of experts and explore our data ⤵️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/citizens-a... #CADataInsights

Why we’re asking MPs to vote against the bill to cut disability benefits Today, the government laid its Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill before parliament. It details plans to cut billions…

This week the Government published the Bill to enable cuts to disability benefits.
If passed, the cuts will push hundreds of thousands of disabled people into poverty.
The average person will lose £375 a month - likely more than all their essential bills combined.

Soho Society faces financial ruin after failed legal battle with gin distillery The Soho Society says it faces financial ruin if ordered to pay nearly £44,000 in legal costs

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Photo of the Turbine Hall of Tate Morden with commemorative patches from the UK AIDS memorial quilt laid on the floor.

Went to visit the UK AIDS memorial quilt this weekend, can’t stop thinking about the grief and love contained in each of those patches. So many lives cut brutally short.

Short sighted policy making: Why does history keep repeating itself? This government, like many before them, is offering extreme prescriptions before being certain of the diagnosis.

A blog by @lauralhutch.bsky.social & me, pulling together some of the strands from recent work by our colleagues @craigpberry.bsky.social @julia-rt.bsky.social and @maddyirose.bsky.social. Link here - it’s an 8 minute read apparently wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/short-sighte... (1/6)

All pain, no gain: Labour’s odd strategy Britain’s governing party spends its political capital for little return

All pain, no gain: Labour’s odd strategy
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Screenshot of email from the Labour Party with the subject line: “let’s talk about Nigel Farage”

Honestly, it feels like we’ve done little else for the last fifteen years.

The Pathways to Work Green Paper sets out plans to cut billions from health and disability benefits.

Instead of getting people into work, these cuts will push hundreds of thousands into poverty.

Our new report looks at the impact of cuts to PIP, UC health & scrapping the WCA (🧵)

Screenshot of an Associated Press article titled “UK’s top court says definition of a woman is based on biological sex and excludes transgender people.” The subheadline reads: “The ruling means that a transgender person with a certificate that recognizes them as female should not be considered a woman for equality purposes.” Below the headline is a photo of two smiling women holding hands and raising their arms in apparent celebration. One wears a green cardigan and pants; the other wears a black blazer and floral blouse. The article is by Sylvia Hui, Brian Melley, and Jill Lawless, and was updated at 12:55 PM EDT on April 16, 2025.

There's maybe no photo that better defines this ghastly era than these people celebrating the right to deny shelter to homeless trans women in the name of female empowerment.

Britain’s parties cater to a voter who is, often literally, dead To understand British politics, one must understand Dead Man

New voter just dropped: Dead Man www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Oh. I thought “Substack now does video” was an April fools…

Benefit cuts will push more people into poverty, warns Citizens Advice boss Exclusive: Clare Moriarty hits out at Labour’s plan as ‘short-term action’ with ‘long-term consequences’ in rare intervention

The government is inconsistent on living standards. They pledge to end mass reliance on foodbanks and reduce child poverty, and then make plans to cut benefits for many ill and disabled people.

@citizensadvice.bsky.social will continue to oppose these cuts

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

📣 Citizens Advice joined Scope to urge the Chancellor to reconsider potential cuts to disability benefits.

Cuts would have a catastrophic impact on disabled people, pushing even more disabled households into poverty.

Read our open letter to the Chancellor ⬇️
www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/op...

Nice little pice in Private Eye as well. The second most closely read publication in Westminster (after Popbitch, ofc).

i do have a few questions for the current owner

For Sale: Hopton Road, London SE18 | The Modern House This refined one-bedroom maisonette is positioned along one of the broad, light-filled streets that trace the historic contours of the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. Once the heart of a vast munitions com...

Call me old fashioned, but for five hundred and fifty grand, wouldn't you want your bathroom to have... walls? and... a door? themodernhouse.com/sales-list/h...

Christopher Clark · A Degree of Light-Heartedness: Merkel’s Two Lives Angela Merkel’s low-key, unflappable persona makes it easy to overlook how extraordinary her story is. A life composed...

Power without vanity | I thought this was a truly brilliant, at times moving, article about Merkel and her life www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Missing billions lives on!

UK energy network owners made billions in excess returns, says watchdog Citizen’s Advice says ‘policy failure’ by regulator means companies secured a windfall of almost £4bn

You could be forgiven for thinking we at Citizens Advice only talk about those who've done badly from the cost of living crisis
So here's a report of ours about some people who've done rather well from it: energy network companies, who have raked in £4bn in excess profits www.ft.com/content/68f8...

Deleting dating apps to meet a man the old fashioned way (at the Peter Hujar photography exhibition at Raven Row)