No cash for DLR to Thamesmead in Rachel Reeves' spring statement - The Greenwich Wire Chancellor Rachel Reeves has declined to fund an extension of the Docklands Light Railway to Thamesmead in her spring statement – leaving London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan warning that the Labour…

Spring statement in SE London:

❌ No cash for DLR to Thamesmead
❌ No cash for Bakerloo Line to Lewisham

Sir Sadiq Khan has warned that the Labour government risks "levelling down" the capital

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Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Having worked with housing developers, I know ONLY mandatory measures will succeed - all environmental planning conditions are treated with disdain and something to work around or evade, in my experience. Come on Matthew Pennycook, you know you can do better.

Graeae's response on the impact of recent policy changes - Graeae

The UK’s disability art scene is a source of international pride. At Graeae, we have been “getting disabled people into work” since 1980. 👇

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RHS ambassador for communities quits, saying he was made to feel a ‘nuisance’ Tayshan Hayden-Smith says Chelsea flower show celebrates ‘exclusivity over equity’ and he was naive to think he could bring change

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Painting of WW2 planes flying above a devastated landscape but with a dustbin full of recycling

Hans Schwarz, teenage Jewish refugee from Nazi Vienna, was sponsored by Cadbury to attend Birmingham Art School. Here’s a student poster of his. #VEDay80

Sheila Hancock: My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant

Growing up in rural Norfolk in the 70s I was often bemused and frustrated by what appeared to count as ‘news’ in the local papers. I now get the same sinking feeling from the BBC News app

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell 1984

“I was 16, gay and bullied for it. Then my father wrote to the Guardian …”

Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit Stop Trump Coalition

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A black and white aerial view of a crowd. You need to zoom in to see that they are people, they just look like dots at first. I’m the top left quarter.

On this day in 1988, 20,000 LGBTQ people and our allies marched through the streets of Manchester to protest Section 28, which tried to stifle all mention of our lives.
At the time it was the largest gay rights gathering ever.
Pic: The crowd seen from the top of the Town Hall.
#LGBT+HistoryMonth

www.which.co.uk/news/article.... Among some helpful advice here is an absence of understanding how we work with traditionally-built (eg solid walls, lime mortar) houses to allow the all-important breathability when insulating. A bit surprising from Which.

‘People are still doing it, but nobody talks about it’: queer collective Duckie break the chemsex taboo The legendary nightlife group known for their groundbreaking nights at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in London are back – and restarting the conversation about the controversial subject

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'Many of us...have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.'

British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933.

The UK does have a ‘special relationship’ – but it’s with Europe

💯 This is exactly what the for-profit media does! Profits over everything.

Follow Matt Wuerker
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Jaunt Belt icon from TV’s Tomorrow People

When you wake up for a hugely busy last day at work before Christmas, but all that’s in your head is a theme tune from 50 years ago 😭

Kenny and Viv certainly came to Queer Up North in Manchester, 1996, but I’m not sure it was in Kiki and Herb guise.

Singer, Prince Rogers Nelson

Color portrait of Émilie du Châtelet. She has papers spread out before her and holds a compass to them with her right hand. Her left elbow rests on the table and her hand is propped against her cheek. She is wearing a green dress with a green bow at her neck, and white frilly sleeves.

Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️

Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour

Woolwich Arsenal station has the BEST carol singers. Primary kids redefining gusto (sorry, didn’t clock which school). Really brightened my morning.

Box of vintage glass baubles

Christmas begins with Gran’s decs

Mishal Husain to leave BBC

What a grievous loss for the BBC and us the audience.
Brilliant journalist, and such a fine person and role model
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I wish 😭

Post you from a different era. 1998, freshly arrived in London