Lee Melin

Delicious typo on the live feed as “pair of…”is rapidly, but only partially, deleted. It’s what we were all thinking to be fair.

Back of the net from Glendenning on the Guardian’s World Cup draw live feed. @footballweekly.bsky.social

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He’s a humourless philistine.

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

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If the UK built 1 million homes, what would happen to house prices? A thought experiment

2021 🧵

Why SupplySupplySupply won’t solve #housing affordability problem

#1 ‘we are doomed to failure if we see it purely as a game of numbers.. lowering the bar to get developers to build tiny dim carbon-intensive socially-isolating unaffordable boxes’ alastairparvin.medium.com/if-the-uk-bu...

Why do they need to be so snarky about it? Feels like part of the othering of those who go out on bikes at the weekend for fun/exercise. They could have just said it’s not equitable/effective etc without being dicks about it.

AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans

If you're ever upset about the state of US land use policy, just spend 30 seconds reading anything about the UK. Automated NIMBYism!
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Don't blame the bats, Labour – you're not just damaging nature but your own poll rating too It wasn't meant to be this way. Sixteen months on from winning a massive majority, off the back of a manifesto that promised 'to restore and protec...

BY ME at #HouseMagazine at #PoliticsHome

The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...

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Bats and newts etc are wheeled out as constraints to delivery with monotonous regularity.

What greeted us on arrival (left) vs. The open day show flat (right).

Like this absolute beauty.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

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Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong | Jonathan Liew To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

on cities

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Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff

Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.

Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people

...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"

It's £10ph FFS!

Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

Spread far & wide.

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You say that, but porridge is definitely being controlled by the Quakers and they’re not even trying to hide it anymore.

“Let’s make housing shit again” would look great on a baseball hat…

80% of reform MPs were privately educated vs. 7% of the population as a whole. It can only be a matter of time before Pochin hits out at this egregious over-representation. Any day now…

‘God’s acres’: the land owned by the Church Commissioners This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Image: Exterior of 1 Millbank, erstwhile headquarters of the Church Commissioners. Updated 9th Feb 2020 to show map & acreage of Hoo Estate. Who Owns England can …

Well, the Church of England could lead by example and develop their extensive landholding, using the uplift in land value to house the poor and provide social and faith based infrastructure.
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The calm before the emotional storm.

What weird chemistry makes a game under the lights feel so exciting?

These days.

Day out in Suffolk. Bit of a mixed bag.

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

Away? In the 80s? Perfect day out for an 8 year old. Football special, escorted to ground by mounted police and dog handlers, then spending the game being coined by home fans.

Thatcher won't back down on soccer ID cards: From the archive, 7 July 1988 Originally published on 7 July 1988: In an attempt to combat football hooliganism, the prime minister tells league clubs that she will introduce photo ID cards for travelling fans

It was so good natured that his great hero, Thatcher, wanted to introduce ID cards for supporters. www.theguardian.com/football/201...

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

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