At Home with the British (Home from Home) – BBC4
December 16th, 2015
Please be aware this article is out of date and has been superseded by these three:-
Dan Cruickshank: At Home With The British – Pt3 – BBC4 – preview
Dan Cruickshank: At Home With The British – Pt2 – BBC4 – preview
Dan Cruickshank: At Home With The British – Pt1 – BBC4 – preview
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If you choose to read on be aware what follows is information I found while trying to find out about the programme before it was broadcast.
UPDATE 2nd May: Stoneleigh
At the beginning of August it began to unfold: the BBC was interested in using Stoneleigh as the basis for a programme on domestic architecture. A series called Home from Home [At Home with the British], presented by Dan Cruickshank and made in collaboration with [the] RIBA, will be aired on BBC 4 in the New Year and charts the architectural development and social history of three typical British house types – the cottage, the terraced house and the flat.
Over the past eight weeks the director, presenter and researcher have made many visits to Stoneleigh finding out about the village’s history and its past connection to the Abbey. Very many houses have been visited and as this goes to press filming will begin at the Food Beer and Craft Market, at the Club and at the Abbey itself. It already seems that everyone you bump into has chatted to them at some point! It will be interesting to see how the project progresses; watch this space!
https://www.stoneleighvillage.org.uk
Stoneleigh is a Warwickshire village close to Kenilworth, Leamington Spa and Warwick and less than 4 miles from the centre of Coventry.There are 68 listed buildings in Stoneleigh.
One Ellesmere St Manchester has started on site
December 16th, 2015
Neave Brown at the Barbican – 23rd July 2015
August 30th, 2015
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https://twitter.com/mossbat/status/632087473024311297
If you want to skip the introductions the interview proper starts at 9m20s in.
Heard through @municipaldreams
Corbyn – the Right takes fright
August 25th, 2015
UPDATE: 26th Serwotka banned – the PLP have really lost the plot. | Steve Bell nails it.
This comment from the Guardian, posted under Polly Toynbee’s latest epistle is worth reading, Especially the last paragraph. I’m reproducing it here in full along with the link.
[Polly Toynbee] – He made front-page FT news yesterday with his assault on “ludicrous” corporate pay, attacking Rupert Murdoch’s empire and telling bankers to wake up to Britain’s “gross inequalities”. Who disagrees with all of that? But if being right was all it took to win elections, the Tories wouldn’t be in power.
So you’re advocating being wrong?
It’s got to be Corbyn – Scotland speaks
August 19th, 2015
So Andrew Brewer was right. When he said in a letter to the London Evening Standard that:-
They voted for the SNP because there is no Left-wing party currently in Westminster politics.
He was telling the truth.
Jeremy Corbyn appears to be the only person in politics at the moment capable of winning back some or all of the 40 seats Labour lost in Scotland to the SNP.
Jeremy Corbyn – one step at a time
August 18th, 2015
The mainstream media or MSM as they’re now known and the various New Labour grandees who have been wheeled out to tell the rest of us what morons we are (McTernan), or how we need a heart transplant (Blair), or how Labour needs a credible, radical leader (Brown), all appear to be labouring under the delusion that electing a Leader of the Opposition is equivalent to electing a future Prime Minister.
If Jeremy Corbyn wins – what to do – Owen Jones
August 17th, 2015
If Jeremy Corbyn wins . . .
Firstly, the mother of all voter registration drives has to be unleashed. The poorer you are in modern Britain, the less likely you are to vote.Labour received its second highest share of the vote from 18-24 year-olds since 1974, but less than half of them voted. Barack Obama triumphed because of a strategy of ‘expanding the electorate’.
Right to buy – Independent
August 17th, 2015
To describe social housing as subsidised – as critics of councils and housing associations often do – is a fallacy. The one-off development cost of building a social home is supported by government, but the rental value of that home repays the investment. Money spent on social housing quickly becomes a public asset.
Following the revelation that getting on for 40% of former council homes are now let out for private rent there have been a flurry of articles in the media, all of which I’ve read looking for nuggets of truth, but in my view this is the best one and I’ve picked out a few paragraphs of interest. I am so glad they included the paragraph on subsidy about which I have written elsewhere.
Jeremy Corbyn in Glasgow – August 14th 2015
August 15th, 2015
Audio from the live stream here:-
Jeremy Corbyn Glasgow speech (40m)
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No I wasn’t there, I’m just posting the links.
Trident
Joanna Spiers, from the East End of Glasgow, who found herself sharing a train carriage with Corbyn on Friday, says: “I felt like someone was speaking to me about the Labour of my youth, my upbringing. I haven’t been able to feel trust like that since John Smith was alive. And, whisper it, but I don’t even think his ideas are that radical!”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/15/jeremy-corbyn-campaign-scotland-corbynmania
Jeremy Corbyn at Norwich – August 6th 2015
August 7th, 2015
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