Mark Hammond

Sorry… I managed to escape… one of the lucky ones….Good luck!

😂 Daughter just sent me same quote (in relation to her day) .
I’m standing at Waterloo……😂😬

#Mainz #Rhineland - more architectural highlights from a quick hop over to Germany.

#Heidelberg Baden-Württemberg: a few architectural highlights…..

Report highlights state of England's cultural infrastructure - Museums Association £7bn is needed for repairs, maintenance and renewal

News | Report highlights state of England’s cultural infrastructure

£7bn is needed for repairs, maintenance and renewal

Was getting up from a breakfast meeting in a smart cafe and caught the eye of a well-dressed woman I knew and said ‘oh morning!’. Didn’t know her actually. It was Wendy Hurrell, who’d given me the weather forecast on the telly 2 hours earlier. BBC was round the corner.

@brucespringsteen.net reviving a strong musician’s tradition - CSN&Y’s ‘Ohio’ still resonates 55 years later - and here’s one more out today in support from the UK from our excellent @billybragg.bsky.social - youtu.be/c4qb2YoyNxQ #minneapolis #Minnesota

5….?🤔

YouTube video by HardRainProductions Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young "Ohio"

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We've been through a lot lately, and it’s not over. 

Extremism is knocking on our door, as YouTubers and federal agents. Schools and hospitals are slashed while Trump pardons crooks and gives handouts to billionaires.

Minnesotans know there’s only one way to weather a storm: you don’t do it alone.

@zaynabmmohamed.bsky.social your #bbc news24 interview this evening was hugely impressive - articulate, measured, and ultimately moving - your message is crossing the Atlantic and is being heard. All our thoughts to build your strength being sent back to you. #minneapolis

YouTube video by UsefulClips Gall--Peters Projection

Classic explanation from where else but… The West Wing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-...

Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...

How can this not be flying today?
Your help to get it signed would be appreciated.
MPs and Councillors changing parties after being elected is NOT democracy.
They may(or may not!) have changed their minds but their electorate may not🤬
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

2026 is the big 50 for @archhfund.org.uk. We're celebrating with a series of events over the course of the year (more details 👇) and will be announcing some exciting plans for the future shortly. And there's a rather nice new website and look to go with it!

Timeline cleanse… Having a desk in the Surveyor’s Office at StPaul’s is amazing, but the greatest privilege is a dark winter’s evening when almost everyone else has gone home, and you feel you have the whole place to yourself…
#architecture #buildingconservation #cathedral #historicbuildings

Indeed. I had 10 great years on X, and a couple of thousand followers. Stopped using it in 2024, and deleted my account a year ago. Even then it had become such a cesspit it was difficult to see why anybody felt they should stay. Sad to see what it turned into, but no regrets about leaving.

9 days and 350 nautical miles last July compressed at last into 58 seconds! #LofotenIslands #ArcticNorway #Orca

@sangitamyska.bsky.social should have a broad public platform - vital, essential comment. We miss her views post-LBC and BBC.

Broadcaster targeted with racist slurs accuses Farage of emboldening ‘toxic environment’ online Farage is responsible for ‘dangerous’ culture shift, says broadcaster subject to alleged posts from Reform councillor

Sangita Myska said the position of people of colour in public life in Britain was “becoming harder by the day”, in part due to an “unbelievably toxic environment in which anything goes” normalised during the #Brexit campaign in 2016.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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#keepmusiclive Excellent night at the Bath House, Hackney Wick. Brown Horse headlining, support from Maripool, and the excellent Zach Thompson. #altfolk

Wait, what.. 😂

😂 my dad had almost exactly that get up…

#totp Robert Palmer not a bad 45 but sounding like he’s being played at 33 rpm…

I’d go see that!

Not sure about the ‘extras’though..

More like it #jam #totp

Liberalism is losing the argument right now - here’s a quick piece I wrote for the Fabian’s on how to fight back ….https://fabians.org.uk/fit-for-the-future/

Thank you - and I absolutely agree. We’ve managed to get to Norway twice this year, and hope to be back again before too long. ☺️

A little more of our brilliant #Norway #kayaking trip last weekend! Aurlandsfjord and #Naeroyfjord, 150km east of Bergen. Calm water and idyllic, stunning scenery - could spend a lifetime here… but it also reminded us of the power of #nature, as the wind later blasted down from the #mountains.