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@rorymeakin

3 months

Political nerds vastly underestimate the share of the population who have this level or below of political awareness

ITV News Politics

@ITVNewsPolitics

3 months

'What do you think of Rishi Sunak?' 'Who? ... he hasn't been prime minister long enough for me to remember his name!' @AnushkaAsthana and @menendez_elisa hear from voters in Gillingham

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2 years

It looks like the Sun’s picture editor knows how ridiculous this story is

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3 years

A 1793 design for a bridge in Bristol, where the Clifton Suspension Bridge was later built:

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3 years

Why would anyone be this much of a shit to an adult, let alone a little girl?! Why is getting in front worth that? (Video: @lucullus )

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2 years

Such a great point on Newsnight by @kenanmalik : Rushdie’s opponents lost the battle because the Satanic Verses was published but they won the war because their case that ‘it is wrong to give offence to certain groups has become much more mainstream’

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4 months

In 99% of suburban Britain there should be an automatic right to build a replica of these semis in place of the existing structures, with no room for neighbours to object

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@boys_nicholas

4 months

Thank heavens for late Victorian and Edwardian excess …

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4 years

This is funny. Boulton's not even trying to pretend, is he?

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@rorymeakin

9 months

This no-nonsense handling of Layla Moran’s moronic, petulant question by Andrew Neil on #bbcqt is beautiful. We need more of this when people try stunts like that:

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@rorymeakin

3 years

Imagine finding that a street can support viable ‘street life’ and then deciding that, actually, it was nicer as a car park. So loony

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@ChiswickHighRd

3 years

Goodbye Sunday vibe on Devonshire Road, as it re-opens to traffic every day. Congratulations to @JoannaBiddolph and @RealOneChiswick on their victory. The relentless drive to prioritise cars and parking has paid off.

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@rorymeakin

5 years

No time to Google it first to make sure...

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4 years

The founder of Stop Taxing Periods has criticised the government for delivering their agenda due to ministers linking the issue to Brexit. She says it’s not true that Brexit enabled the change because the EU might one day change the relevant EU law anyway:

Tampon tax: government axes VAT on sanitary products

Key campaigner Laura Coryton accuses Tory politicians of trying to turn issue into ‘pro-Brexit thing’

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2 years

@XRebellionUK You’ve gone to a citizens’ assembly and taped yourself to a chair to demand… a citizens’ assembly?

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@rorymeakin

4 months

Britain’s number one economic problem is the planning system but building regulations are also hugely destructive to the wellbeing of the nation and also need a radical overhaul

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@tomhfh

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All of these houses are illegal to build today under the latest building regulations.

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3 years

@WCymro @disclosetv Embarrassing is the boot licking

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3 years

The sooner @wandbc designs out this nonsense on Queenstown Rd cycleway (CS8) by Chelsea Bridge, the better. Every single time I pass it happens. Sooner or later it’s bound to end badly

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4 years

Northcote Road in Wandsworth has been utterly transformed. It’s been made amazingly pleasant, just by removing motor vehicles. On balance, motor transport makes our lives better, but it really trashes our streets and turns them into shitholes. Let’s turn a few more back:

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6 months

England hasn’t built a new reservoir since 1991

Prof. Ian Walker

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The UK risks running short of water and the goal is to get consumption down to 110 litres/person/day

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5 years

I find it amazing how much driving like this there is, when you start opening your eyes and seeing how people actually drive...

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7 months

Having a second home should be a normal, reasonable ambition. Whether it’s a pied a terre for a professional whose family would rather live in the sticks or a holiday cottage or flat on the coast, abroad or in the countryside. This should be something way more should afford

Kristian Niemietz

@K_Niemietz

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That is extremely cool and edgy! However, Britain has the lowest second home ownership rate in Europe, with just 3% of households having one.

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3 months

This is great but it doesn’t match a vox pop in a shopping centre with a woman who, in 2017 iirc, asked what Brexit was and then when told said ‘oh, politics’

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@rorymeakin

2 years

Generation Entitlement demanding younger taxpayers give them more freebies again 🤢

Josiah Mortimer

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2 years

A historic moment - the first protest inside the new City Hall, AFAIK. Over 60s Londoners are pushing to win back their free TfL travel before 9am

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5 years

Med student: "I'm soo ashamed that he's the prime ministah of my cunt-tra. It's disgusting and I wish him... a horrible death. He's fucking avrythang up for people my age. Our future. I plan to wark in the NHS. I plan to be a doctor! I plan to act chew lay car about people!"

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2 years

Hiking the tax burden to a 70-year high makes you 7/10 economically right wing. Cancelling some of those hikes make you 9/10 economically right wing! 😂🤣 Very little room to go further right once you’ve done that…

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@rorymeakin

10 months

48%?!? Why tf are foreigners being given *any* subsidised housing in London, let alone 48%? Wtf is wrong with the British system?

Neil O'Brien

@NeilDotObrien

10 months

Supply matters, but we won't resolve the housing crisis unless we also tackle demand, including from migration. 48% of households in social housing in London are headed by someone not born in the UK.

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8 months

@s8mb Here you go, Sam!

👻Tania Pope 👻〓〓 🌅🤓🎼📻

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8 months

Wow London . Thank you. Watching from Cornwall from comfort of the sofa. X🎉 #LondonFireworks

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10 months

In the UK the Conservative party is polling at 1% among this age group

Polling Canada

@CanadianPolling

10 months

Federal vote intention among 18-29 Year Olds: CPC: 40% NDP: 24% LPC: 21% GPC: 7% BQ: 5% PPC: 2% Abacus Data / October 10, 2023 / Online

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8 months

Sometimes I think British car crash death rates are horrendous... then I remember how grisly the situation is in the US, where the incentives are all lined up for it to get ever bloodier

Nick Huber

@sweatystartup

8 months

This tweet makes people very upset because they know I’m right when they think critically about it. But I’m going to keep saying it so people wake up: Vehicle safety ratings are the greatest scam ever. They only test them against other similar sized vehicles and single car

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3 months

The leader of the Canadian Tories is so great. Imagine if British Tories took this approach instead of babbling on about the precious green belt and how they'll stop 'over development'?

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@PierrePoilievre

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The math disagrees with Trudeau.

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@rorymeakin

6 years

If anyone is in any doubt of the truth of alien life please watch Alien on Netflix

Rebecca Long-Bailey

@RLong_Bailey

6 years

If anyone is in any doubt of the human cost of Tory austerity on our communities please watch I, Daniel Blake tonight at 9.45pm on BBC 2

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4 years

Labour have already deleted the video about Sharon and people starving and having to eat scraps. Why?

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3 years

🤢 I have a better idea. Charge arts customers to fund the arts:

Tax smartphones to fund the arts, say stars including Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton and Celia Imrie

When asked to slash arts funding in an effort to support the war effort, Winston Churchill is said to have replied: “Then what would we be fighting for?”

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Britain badly needs a first amendment to protect citizens from this kind of abuse. This is utterly appalling. The police and the judge should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. But not as much as the politicians who drafted the laws which enabled this

Josh Bolton

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Retired train driver, 61, who chanted ‘who the fuck is Allah’ and 'you're not English anymore' at Whitehall protest is jailed for 18 months

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2 years

Impressive charts in @thetimes today, even @LibDems don’t have these skills!

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7 months

18% of the French have a second home 15% of Germans 14% of Italians 27% of Spaniards In the UK we’re so impoverished by the housing shortage our number is 3%. And class war baiters try to weaponise even that

Kristian Niemietz

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I'm looking forward to the 3 sympathy-likes one can usually expect for gently correcting a trendy opinion.

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1 year

@ewansomerville How many deaths?

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4 years

I can scarcely believe that the English police have stooped to such a hateful, disgusting low. I thought we were a bit better than this. No risk in driving somewhere a little further for exercise. Heart breaking to see our police reduce themselves to tin-pot Continental gestapo:

Derbyshire Police

@DerbysPolice

4 years

Despite posts yesterday highlighting issues of people still visiting the #PeakDistrict despite government guidance, the message is still not getting through. @DerPolDroneUnit have been out at beauty spots across the county, and this footage was captured at #CurbarEdge last night.

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1 year

Fantastic speech tonight by @AndrewHWestern on the case for releasing green belt land within 1 mile of a railway station for housing:

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6 months

@tweeting_keith One in six of all UK rail journeys

The Economist

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1 year

Almost one in six of all rail journeys in Britain are, according to data from the Office of Rail and Road, now made on London’s Elizabeth line. Why is it so popular?

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3 years

Great @afneil interview of @SteveBakerHW on @gbnews on vaccines, restrictions, fear, ethics and what kind of society the UK is becoming:

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@rorymeakin

5 years

It does make you wonder what authoritarian, big state Tories like Theresa May think when they hear something like this

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5 years

"The trouble with Labour is that they're just not at home with freedom." Speech to Conservative Party Conference, October 1989

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11 months

Something tells me that if an upmarket hotel chain took it over and renovated it then it would manage to do the job for somewhat less

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I don't think a single building should cost 1% of GDP to renovate

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2 years

There's very little evidence that there are too few houses in the UK

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5 months

Because of a lack of prison capacity and willingness to punish shoplifting

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3 years

Has any country ever tried replacing general elections with staggered elections every week? Once a week three constituencies go to the polls, ~150 seats a year. No grand event, majorities grow and shrink over time as seats are won and lost. Like rolling tv news but for government

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4 years

I’ve never seen so many white people in one place. Have you, @jonsnowC4 ?

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5 years

Did any Tory MPs go to Brighton to protest against Corbyn and Labour during their conference? Have any ever done that?

Richard Burgon MP

@RichardBurgon

5 years

Comrades together at the @pplsassembly demo in Manchester against Boris Johnson and the Tories! The rain didn’t stop us or the protesters!

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3 months

So damn pathetic that we have pubs and bars aren’t allowed to open late except on odd events that politicians deem sufficiently worthy. Broken society:

Conservatives

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3 months

🚨 HERE WE GO 🚨

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4 years

New UK coronavirus infections peaked and started falling before the restrictions were introduced - Oxford professor:

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1 year

So weird that politicians like her don’t give a toss about the housing crisis when they’re causing it by nimbying against taller/bulkier buildings in towns, or on the green belts around them, but then they emote when they learn that the crisis they caused also harms Ukrainians

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Over 2,000 Ukrainians arrived in Oxfordshire this year. I'm so proud of the way our community has come together to support them. But many families now face issues finding housing as they look to settle in the UK. This week I spoke in Parliament about what more govt needs to do.

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3 years

Four front pages. Two of which offering trashy tabloid sensationalism, the other two responsible

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6 months

This looks increasingly like the future of British public life. As well as weekly rallies in support of Hamas and Houthi terror (to varying degrees of openness), ghastly behaviour towards MPs like we've seen with Gove and now Rayner. Britain has a massive, massive problem

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Angela Rayner out campaigning is challenged by protestors. She has no defence for her party’s betrayal of the communities they claim to serve. #BoycottLabour

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1 year

I know Brits are bad for having their brains addled by car culture but we're nothing like Americans. If the replies and QTs are anything to go by, they're absolutely insane over there. Most seem to be excusing this shitbag's ghastly behaviour. Astonishing:

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6 years

Tom is right about the weird way people treat the EU as if it’s some apolitical, neutral authority, and our own government as always in the wrong and deserving of punishment for disobedience. God only knows what’s going on with all that and what causes it, psychologically

Tom Harwood

@tomhfh

6 years

please can we all stop taking everything the EU says as gospel, and nothing that the UK says as truthful. The EU is playing politics far harder than any other party in this negotiation.

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1 year

It's sobering to realise how much of Greenwich Peninsular is actually just car parks... (though a lot of London is just car parks, frankly)

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2 years

And what is it all for? To prop up a failing, wasteful healthcare model, to prop up a failing, wasteful pensions model and, most of all, to prop up a failing, wasteful land use planning model:

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3 months

How can people be so, so dumb about this

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Britain's housing crisis is the biggest proof of the failure of neoliberal economics. Bringing back rent controls is the first step to fixing the problem, @Victoria_Spratt says.

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2 years

Prophetic warning from 1963 about the potential of car use to uglify historic town centres:

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8 months

Bicycle theft should be made illegal

Laura Laker

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Ah dear. There goes my nice new bike

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Beyond the thieving that’s causing it, this is such a heart-warming scene. These lads probably have no contractual obligation to intervene like this. Many others in their situation don’t. But they did. Possibly simply because they don’t want thieves to thrive in their community

London & UK Street News

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B&M staff stop shop thieves in Dagenham..

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4 years

Oxford Union cancels ‘This house would cancel cancel culture’ debate:

Ric Crossman

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4 years

Delighted to hear that Graham Linehan will now not be appearing before Oxford Union to debate "cancel culture", but I'm profoundly concerned this was ever considered to be an appropriate idea in the first place.

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4 years

I was curious about the value of land used for on-street residents' parking in London, so I estimated it. It was £48 billion using MHCLG's residential land value estimates for 2017:

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1 year

The tax burden is approximately at the level proposed by Corbyn in the 2019 campaign, net immigration is at half a million and predicted to rise to 700,000, the last budget announced welfare state expansion. Might Tories become ‘even further to the right’?

Pippa Crerar

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V interesting from @peterwalker99 on whether the Conservative party will shift even further to the right...

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1 year

@BenRamanauskas We know this already Ben. Shame on you for hating England! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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1 year

No London council should give away free rental of land to drivers to store a car. Every single parking space owned by councils should be charged at least the revenue-maximising rates, with receipts used to lower council tax. Taxpayers shouldn't be cheated out of these revenues

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1 year

No, I might not

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2 years

Of course we support solar energy. As a general idea it’s wonderful. But in this particular case, in our own back yard, it is somewhat different:

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4 years

Arguably the most depressing facet of 2020 is that we have government busybodies equating behaving ‘with wild abandon’ with ‘going off to the bingo halls’. What a fallen people we are!

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1 year

Southwark council has a new transport strategy: * Benches every 100m * Water fountains * Street furniture in carriageways * 2.4m pavements, 4m in busy areas * Crossings on desire lines * Parking-free junctions * More cycle hire & motorbike parking

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2 years

@HarrowGreens @NoToTescoTowers @WembleyMatters Oh no, less parking. Glad *someone* is making a stand for car culture!

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7 years

BREAKING: tax cuts are popular, polling experts have revealed #Budget2017

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No 10 sources say stamp duty policy polling v strongly (they would, wouldn’t they, but still) , private polling suggests its most popular measure in Budget

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The housing crisis is entirely caused by councillors (under pressure from comfortably housed nimby residents) blocking builders from building open-market homes. The guff about ‘affordable’ (ie subsidised) homes is just the state’s way of ameliorating one consequences of that

Simon Hogg

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Thank you to the many residents who’ve been in touch about the idea to build a 38-storey tower near Battersea Bridge. Here’s my personal view 🧵

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1 year

There should be a range of designs like this for which, anywhere in outer London, people have the automatic right to permission to build in place of the existing:

Tom Harwood

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1 year

Cool street in Clapham. If most of one or two storey london was built to this density instead, we’d be a long way along the road to solving the housing crisis.

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3 years

Beautiful 👌🏼

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5 months

This is appalling. Five storeys is a scandalous waste of prime inner London land. Inner London default should be double that. No wonder we have a massive housing crisis when this is what councils do to us:

Peter Graham

@peter_graham

5 months

A big win for residents this week, after two Labour Cllrs broke ranks and helped us defeat a massive @Barratt_London overdevelopment at the @SWLSTG Springfield site. For now, at least, five-storey blocks won’t loom over #SpringfieldPark . Here’s why:

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5 years

No shit! Should taxpayers pay for motorists’ petrol, too? Or just their parking?

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@Johnny__Luk Such a shame that these homes exist when they could still be fields

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2 years

How can they have such short memories?

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2 years

Truss 'has no idea what is about to be unleashed on her. Constant, vitriolic assaults on social media… daily pounding on broadcast news… snide comments on BBC “comedy”… put-downs from the panjandrums… assisted by Remain Tory grandees like John Major'

Truss's biggest foe won't be Starmer but the Left Blob who'll unleash a campaign to destroy her

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1 year

The NHS is one of the things that is embarrassing about being British. The asinine mawkishness about a healthcare sector would be bad enough if it were a good system. But it leaves us with more death and disease for the same amount of money as other systems. Tragically naff:

Rachel Reeves

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The NHS makes us proud to be British. But after 13 years of the Tories it's on its knees. Labour will deliver the biggest expansion of the NHS workforce in history. We'll pay for this by scrapping non-dom tax status - because if you live here, you should pay your taxes here.

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5 years

MAP: what would the tube map look like if you overlaid it with borough boundaries? Well, @zzzviad has done it so you don't need to wonder!

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2 years

Three facts that must be acknowledged on the housing crisis and six policies that can fix it:

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@rorymeakin

4 years

One thing I’ve learnt on on twitter is to never underestimate its power to take a seemingly obvious joke literally because you didn’t make it quite obvious enough

Adam Bienkov

@AdamBienkov

4 years

"Some people used to sneer at wind power... and say it wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding," says Boris Johnson, who used to sneer at wind power, and say it wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.

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1 year

@BobBlackman Why are British Tories so damn loathsome on this stuff? The Canadians under Poilievre really put you to shame

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@PierrePoilievre

1 year

Want more homes for students & seniors? Require cities approve massive apartments next to all federally-funded transit stations.

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@rorymeakin

4 years

This is odd. Partly it’s great, an example of an entrepreneur spotting opportunities in untapped markets. Makes sense that you’ll spot these gaps if you’re in the demographic. But partly it’s grim race-baiting, encouraging people to shop according to owners’ skin colour. Nasty:

Sky News

@SkyNews

4 years

Today marks Black Pound Day which encourages people to buy products from black-owned businesses. We speak to founder of Blaqbase, @BenedictaBanga , about why the day is so important. Read more of today's stories:

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@rorymeakin

3 years

People with an authoritarian disposition, which is to say the overwhelming bulk of people who involve themselves in current affairs, are having a hard time coming to terms with the consequences of the success of the vaccines. Life is becoming much less thrilling for them

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@rorymeakin

2 years

Absolute tour de force of a blog by @edwest on how cars uglify cities, make us fat, make us unhappy, destroy civic life, prevent childhood play and why we need road pricing (the title explains pretty much explains it):

Road pricing is better than road communism

We need to take back control of our city streets

www.edwest.co.uk

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@rorymeakin

4 years

Sometimes physical infrastructure isn’t enough either, as this soft-top Toyota driver mounting the pavement to drive through a traffic filter on Old Ford Road shows

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@rorymeakin

3 years

Middle income families in London should be able to comfortably afford a spare room. Pied a terres should be a reasonable purchase for professionals living in the shires. Graduates should be able to afford to rent a reasonably central studio flat or flat share with a living room.

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@rorymeakin

3 years

@George_Osborne It's good that vandals have been let off because in the past there were even worse vandals who did far more damage? Right...

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@rorymeakin

3 years

Pubs in the Isle of Dogs. Apparently there used to be 40 but now just 6 remain, 7 including one that’s about to reopen

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@rorymeakin

1 year

Imagine the Romans or the Victorians being this pathetic? (Or indeed anyone else in pretty much any developed (or rapidly developing) economy today. So contemptible:

Henry Pryor

@HenryPryor

1 year

Tory MP said Cambridge was "already growing incredibly rapidly" but a lack of water meant expansion plans were "undeliverable”.

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@rorymeakin

2 years

Reportedly the plan were scrapped as they provided no benefit to pensioners

Ben Riley-Smith

@benrileysmith

2 years

EXC: Rishi Sunak has shelved plans for a ‘big bang’ overhaul of the childcare system drafted by Liz Truss Truss was looking at an extra 20hrs of free childcare + scrapping staff-child ratios. Due to be revealed pre Xmas But reforms delayed + scaled back

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@rorymeakin

11 months

Should build pylons, then, citing community concerns about underground cables

Andrew Beckett

@AndrewBeckett

11 months

“This isn’t a nimby thing” Probably the only country in the world where people protest against *underground* cables

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@rorymeakin

1 year

This site is: * literally a bus station * 100m from Kingston train station * In the middle of one of London's biggest shopping districts So what does @TfL propose? During a massive housing shortage? A new single storey bus station with no flats at all above...

CLondoner92

@CLondoner92

1 year

Transport for #London press release: #TfL to start work to transform Kingston Cromwell Road bus station Work will begin on 28 August and complete in summer 2024 #Superloop service SL7 will serve the new bus station when work is complete.

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@rorymeakin

8 months

Self checkouts are awesome. One of the things about life now that’s so much better than life 20 years ago. Queuing is so much rarer than it used to be, so much shorter if there is one. We should automate as much as possible

Morgoth

@MorgothsReview

8 months

The self checkout in supermarkets is the event horizon where technology, corporate hegemony, decay and general shitness all converge. Your frustration and fatigue has been calculated and deemed worth it, as has your temporary employment as a checkout girl

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@rorymeakin

6 years

It's quite sobering to reflect on the possibility that all the other candidates at Laura Pidcock's selection were even worse... #bbcqt

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@rorymeakin

3 years

This might be how you pronounce it in Spain but not when you’re in England. Here it’s pronounced ‘cho-ri-zo’. Similarly, it’s not ‘Pa-ree’, it’s ‘Pa-ris’. And it’s not ‘Barth-a-loner’, it’s ‘Bar-ce-lona’. Etc.

JWExTheSpa

@SpaJw

3 years

My fellow Brits - chorizo is choritho, not choritso; it’s Spanish, not Italian. This is not hard.

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@rorymeakin

3 months

When did the British system become so squeamish about deporting people like this?

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3 years

It’s going to take years, perhaps decades, to treat Britain from the authoritarianism that has been allowed to let rip over the past year, says @DanielJHannan to @MarkJLittlewood . Depressing but highly plausible:

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@rorymeakin

2 years

We need to find out whatever it is that this 57% enjoy in life and ban that

YouGov

@YouGov

2 years

New Zealand has passed legislation meaning anyone born after 2008 will never be able to buy cigarettes Most Britons (57%) would support a similar ban in the UK: Strongly support: 34% Somewhat support: 23% Somewhat oppose: 16% Strongly oppose: 12%

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