The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.

Thank you Sally Rooney. This solidarity is beautiful. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

If you can, please support Climate Action Support Pathway. They do such important and selfless work in supporting people who have been arrested (including those at the Palestine Action protest last weekend) chuffed.org/project/casp...

I wrote about why I felt unbearably sad when I was arrested at the Palestine Action protest. substack.com/@jeremytill1...

This is terrifying. The wonderful people organising the protest against the proscription of Palestine Action have had their website taken down on the government's behest. Please join me and 100s maybe 1000s of others on Saturday, silently holding a placard.

Oh my eyes. Paul Lynch's Prophet Song is so brilliant, so timely. The collapse of democracy told as a story of human vulnerabilty and love rather than through the power plays we are all currently obsessed with.

“My love be a front line My love be a fighter A shade that sisters and saves My love survived the middle passage Waded the waters My love be grassroots Organizes movements, the birds the bees My love be butterflies beaming My love be indigenous, ocean wide, sky deep My love listens to the land…”

Please sign up. This is vital I have been demanding and writing about this for years We have campaigns on every safety issue imaginable - except the biggest ever threat to civilisation

It is an amazing thing that Cory Booker is doing - 18 hours and counting. But the amount of corruption and autocratic control he is recounting does make his job easier. Watch live www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tQn...

A really brilliant campaign!

My latest Substack on why we need to switch the news off, at least for most of the time. jeremytill.substack.com/p/organ-music

20 years after I started to write Architecture Depends, I am thrilled that it is being translated into French by Editions de la Villette. This is an epilogue to the translation. It felt emotional to return to the original - so this is quite personal a text. open.substack.com/pub/jeremyti...

One wonders what to do in these times. One suggestion is to follow the example here of @shannonmattern.bsky.social who endlessly (and I guess at no small personal cost) calls out & broadcasts the tyranny. 'Small' acts like this collect together as resistance, & will eventually overturn.

Here is my review of two films: The Brutalist and Architecton. Spoiler alert, I really like one and really dislike the other. open.substack.com/pub/jeremyti...

This @neweconomics.bsky.social report is essential reading to understand just why the third runway is an environmental disaster. neweconomics.org/2025/01/airp...

Well, The Brutalist is so offensively awful that I am going to have to write my first film review - contrasting it with the astonishing Architecton. Watch my Substack in few days time.

This fossil fuel skit by Olivia Coleman for @makemymoneymatter.bsky.social is great if you haven't seen it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeZw...

A new Substack piece that started out as a commission from @just-stopoil.bsky.social It calls out the stance of our national museums in response to climate activism. jeremytill.substack.com/p/just-stop-...

Really great article by @ollywainwright.bsky.social on the LA fires and the pyrophilic urbanism that led to them. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A reminder that one of the most effective charities to support the brutalised citizens of Palestine is @medicalaidpal.bsky.social Please give what you can.

Just watched the latest Philomena Cunk. Sooo glad I had the sense to turn down the offer to be an architectural expert some years ago. She skewers everyone.

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT SAUDI ARABIA - a post (my first Substack, please subscribe) about the ethics of architects working in Saudi Arabia open.substack.com/pub/jeremyti...

Judy Willcocks from the museum at Central Saint Martins did an oral history interview with me about my time as Head of CSM. It was fun doing it, so I hope it is fun to listen to. Trigger warning: we talk about Brexit, Covid and Tory ministers. soundcloud.com/centralsaint....

Adam Greenfield is talking at Central Saint Martins tomorrow evening, 5th December. Only just started his book, but if the accompanying podcasts are anything to go by, it and the lecture will be crackers. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empowering...

My opinion piece on the proposed new Architects Registration Board is now up on the @news.architectsjournal.co.uk website. The opinion is quite tough.... www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

Wonderful article by Emma Dent Coad on the Architects for Gaza event at the University of Westminster. Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari deserve huge acclaim for their brave and principled work. www.bdonline.co.uk/opinion/buil...

"There is a danger that 'repair' becomes too emollient an approach, easing symptoms of climate breakdown but not addressing the violence of its causes in a truly effective manner...It is almost certainly the case, given the depth of the climate crisis, that the dominant systems are beyond repair."

Very happy to with a group of great writers addressing issues of repair for the wonderful @placesjournal.bsky.social (scroll down to find my short piece) placesjournal.org/article/fiel...

So damn depressing to see the RIBA and 20 London architectural firms pile into the Saudi version of MIPIM with no apparent concern for human rights, climate or basic justice.

Great podcast with Adam Greenfield on his new book "Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire". On the need for solidarity and self-organisation in the face of what he calls "the long emergency". podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Just posted on LinkedIn about the consultation on the hopeless draft Code of Conduct from ARB. No climate, no ethics, no responsibility for wider impact. Architects are mere handmaidens for the modern machine. Pile in people! www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...

Joining the exodus from the bad place