Lee Melin

✊🐰 solidarity comrade

😂 Oops! That did NOT quite go to plan for GB News!

Niche Greg Mitchell reference. Quality.

Glory hunter!

I’m British but not English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish. Channel Islanders have been British since the Norman Conquest so is that where the line is being drawn? Must demonstrate pre-conquest lineage to qualify as British?

Reform-run Kent council accused of fabricating £40m net zero savings Exclusive: Disclosures show figures cited by council leader rested on unfunded ideas listed briefly in budget papers

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

Identifying projects that never existed, as projects that never existed, is apparently misleading…

A grey rendered passive house, set in a rural backdrop

Quantity surveyor Ross Cremin set out from scratch with the goal of a #selfbuild #passivehouse on a site in rural County Longford. Here he tells the story of his project and offers advice for others thinking of building their own passive house.

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Can’t remember where I found this, but seems relevant…

Back in print! The Radburn Idea 1. Also available, The Radburn Idea 2! Stories of how postwar English architects and planners attempted to produce pedestrian-friendly, car-free housing estates. £10 each, postage free. For sale here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com

Wait… isn’t that just Trump wearing lipstick?

if you can't afford clothes, it's not clothing poverty, it's poverty. If you can't afford sanitary protection, it's not period poverty, it's poverty. Divvying up poverty into little bits hides the fact that poverty is poverty and gives right-wingers an in to say "poor people need to budget better."

“Will shit myself in public, to a deadline and in exchange for money, to avoid wokery.” Merry Christmas!

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

Not sure he’s entirely appropriate. Likes a flutter, apparently.

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Meanwhile, at the frontline…

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Barry’s World Cup draw Guardian live feed. What was the hastily, but partially deleted sentence going to be? ‘Pair of..’, ‘Bunch of..’?

Unhinged. Defended by Lineker? He famously never tracked back.

uh oh

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

Yes, and you can store them in that massive warehouse that you didn’t build because your business relies on a just-in-time supply strategy.

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

Check out the new bathing water results here: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...

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

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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

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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.