Keith Marriott

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Interior of semicircular St Patrick's church, Coventry, with big wedges of timber-clad roof forming slices of clerestory between them, a stained glass panel of the crucifix over the altar lit from behind, random coloured panels of green, orange, red and white forming the walls between internal butresses.

St Mary, Dunstable, interior of round church with altar on one side, brick piers in pairs forming side chapels, stained glass slots between them, a clerestory of yellow glass, over which hangs a big round ceiling in teal and white stripes with sculptural zig-zag pattern.

St Michael, Wolverhampton, exterior, a round brown brick church with slot windows between buttress-like piers, lead-roofed wedges clustered around the a small spike on the roof, and a separate tower made of two parallel brick piers.

Interior of St Michael's church, Wolverhampton, looking up to circular drum bathed in yellow light, in a sculptural ceiling of diamond-shapes, apparently floating as light enters around the edges from hidden sources above, supported over brick panel walls with slot windows of stained glass; on axis there's a crucifix in front of an abstract ceramic panel.

Sad to hear recently of architect Desmond Williams's passing. Fond memories of exploring his dramatic 1960s churches. Now preparing some photos for the Manchester Modernist Society. Obituary by his son here: www.ribaj.com/intelligence...

Chris Williamson proposes ‘The Loop’ - Architecture Today The President of the Royal Institute of British Architects sets out a proposal for a high-speed rail and energy infrastructure linking nine cities across the north of the British Isles to support long...

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Financially, the loss of the Swiss contract is likely immaterial. Its greater impact is as a reputational risk, raising questions about data sovereignty that may prompt other European partners to reconsider their alliances.

“I think Greenland was a wake-up call. There is more talk [in Brussels] about replacing one dependency with another.”

This is what I told the Wall Street Journal about Europe’s increasing dependence on US LNG following the end of Russian pipeline gas.

“If you’ve never flooded, you don’t realise that the water is filthy” The average flood damage in the UK is 0.3m, barely up to the shins in terms of water, but that can still mean thousands of pounds in damage. Peter Apps reports on the growing issue of flood poverty

As climate change makes Britain's weather wetter and wilder, the number of people living in 'flood poverty' will rise.

Bit by me for The Developer:

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Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

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Thats the spirit !

Why photography matters.

Brutalist Southbank Centre finally listed after 35 years of refusals Brutalist Southbank Centre finally listed after 35 years of refusals

London’s Southbank Centre has been listed, ending a 35-year battle to secure heritage protection for the 1960s Brutalist landmark.

If this is as important as he suggests it is and he‘s confident of his argument why does he need to expound his theory in secret to an invited audience?

Well Black Sabbath supported by Yes sounds interesting!!! I have only the vaguest memories of the existence of the Stadium as a student in Liverpool from 76- 79 . Erics was much more in vogue

Part 2 - The hunting party

The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow In 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union. The KGB almost certainly made the trip happen.

Fascinating article from 2017 about how Trump may have been cultivated by Soviet intelligence as early as 1977…
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That‘s the spirit.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

This is Nigel Farage with Nick Candy, the treasurer of Reform UK 👇

Candy appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade, The National has uncovered.

The Scottish Greens are putting pressure on Reform to explain the links.

The parable of Andy Burnham and Peter Mandelson Voters are unimpressed by Keir Starmer’s contrasting treatment of two Labour politicians

Voters in focus groups are contrasting Labour’s treatment of Burnham and Mandelson – that’s a dangerous comparison for Starmer. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Laughable ( ie better than crying) that GB News has realised what Northerners have known for decades to be „news“ , although it clearly not convinced its real and not just „perceived „

UK should consider resuming talks on EU defence pact, Starmer says PM says Europe must ‘step up’ and signals he wants to work more closely with other states to build military capability

NEW: UK should consider re-entering talks for defence pact with the EU, Keir Starmer has said, arguing that Europe needs to “step up and do more” to defend itself in uncertain times.

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Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

With more evidence coming to light of Bannon’s interference in British politics - plotting with Johnson, Rees Mogg and Farage and bigging up Yaxley Lennon while working with Epstein, thought I’d re-up this

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The review to end all reviews.

One of my favourite buildings in Huddersfield today was Byram Arcade, a galleried shopping arcade of c1880 by WH Crossland. It's easy to imagine the posh shops that would fill it if it was in Leeds or Harrogate!

No Ball Games. Broomhall Street, Sheffield.

This makes the post-9/11 NSA warrantless surveillance program look like digging through people's trash (which the FBI also did).

That caused such a backlash there was still congressional activity on it a decade later.

This is absolutely blood-chilling levels of state overreach and so far crickets.

The Legislation Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will: 1) Leave the ECHR 2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights. 3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill: This Bill will: Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act." The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years: Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT) Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order. These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR. Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds. If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight. Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property. Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000 Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes. This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month. Initial Voluntary Return Window A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this. The Deportation Flights The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.

It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Number of US-style ‘battering ram’ pickup trucks on UK roads has nearly doubled in a decade Exclusive: Campaigners say ‘menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones

Dangerous, grotesque and unnecessary. Get them out of our cities and towns. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

NEW: Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills, says UKERC

"Volatile, gas-linked market prices – not green policies, as some misleading claims have suggested – dominate the real-terms increase in bills since 2021."

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The Telegraph’s political editor is saying, more subtly, what others are saying brutally.

The commercial art galleries of Mayfair and St James's are one of London's overlooked delights. Here are seven current shows that are worth catching, starting with the stunning Richard Avedon exhibition at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill until 14 March (THREAD 1 of 7)