Five more years of Tory rule?
April 14th, 2015
Update 2017 Volunteers help preserve London’s parks as funding withdrawn
Tax the rich: an animated fairy tale
A while back when I was still on Twitter (yes I know) I came across this animated video about unrestrained neo-liberalism. Despite retweeting it at the time it didn’t take off. I was surprised because to me it is an accurate graphic representation of what is and has been happening to our society in the UK since 1979.
It ties in with an analysis I did a while back of a Stuart Hall paper where he examines what will happen if neo-liberalism is allowed to continue to dictate policy in public life.
Thatcher reviewed in the Architects Journal
April 14th, 2015
High Rise Dreams
A good article from the 11th in the AJ which makes good if uncomfortable reading for those of us who remember the years before it was all dismantled.
The biggest impact on the profession was the closure of the vast majority of public sector architect departments. In-house council teams had employed thousands of architects across the country.
What Uk Labour ought to do – Guardian
April 10th, 2015
The first clear chance for years to differentiate themselves, to renounce austerity and commit to a genuine Labour manifesto, sod the Mail, renationalise, reunionise, tax the rich, protect the poor, FIGHT FOR THE WORKING CLASS WHICH IS TECHNICALLY THEIR ****ING PURPOSE and all they can offer is the Vegetarian Option
I don’t read the Guardian in order to be told what to think, I read it because their editorial views are the most closely aligned with my own. In most cases. This applies today where they summarise responses from a readers’ survey leading to a list of 10 things their readers think ought to be in the manifesto but which are not:-
Estates under threat II
April 4th, 2015
We will not get the new social housing we need until there is a profound leftward shift in Government. Whether that comes from a Labour / SNP deal or elsewhere remains to be seen but without it I fear another five years of expulsions
Map @onalifeglug HT @gamecounsel & @CorpWatchUK
Five years ago I wrote this:-
“Among
Toryboroughs across London, there seems now to be a disease spreading ever wider that the land on which council tenants live is available for development”[Tory struck out 7/11/12 owing to realisation that they’re all at it. Hello Southwark (Lab)! – Ed.]
Follow the fight to save London’s social housing @michaellondonsf and planning stuff.
If you’re planning to vote Tory first read this
March 31st, 2015
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A new report by Professor Anne Power of the LSE reviewed here by Aditya Chakrabortty
Tweet of the day – Keep public land, public!
March 31st, 2015
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Michael, why aren’t you Mayor? You’d make a better one than Boris.
If I could take everybody in London under 30 back to the 1970s for a day and show them the council housing we had then, and point out that they themselves could have applied for a flat and got one in under a year in most cases, they’d be in heaven. What have we lost under the Tories and New Labour???
City Villages – Adonis & others
March 25th, 2015
Carpenters Estate – @FocusE15
March 19th, 2015
Fighting the System – BBC3
I’ve still got some clips from this, drop me a line sometime and I’ll put them on Youtube.
Documentary about four extreme protesters who are using direct action, risking their safety, their freedom and their futures, to force their way to change.
This used to be an article about Carpenters but the BBC have withdrawn the film and it’s not on Youtube so this is just a marker point now that the film was ever made.
I’ve got the film or part of it on a DVD somewhere, it’s a question of digging it out and uploading it.
Ken Loach in the Guardian
March 18th, 2015
Lambeth MIPIM display board
March 17th, 2015
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Source: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/display_panel_at_mipim_property