Oh boy - Headline grabber Would be nice to get more detail. That dot map of high weald so misleading. I strongly suspect many of those apps/competitions are eg conversions and other planning classes with no loss of land 1/n www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In the budget proposal for NASA submitted earlier this year, the Trump admin proposed cancelling more than 40 missions, including 14 Earth science missions. Agency employees have already been instructed to do the preparatory work for ending these satellite and instrument programs

Nice day to reshare this Was there Russian meddling in the Brexit referendum? The Tories just didn't care | The Guardian share.google/FumWj2Q37jQQ...

Recommending ITV's The Hack to everyone Give it a few episodes & the third wall stuff feels right - not everyone will have engaged with the story when it was happening.

THIS is how you do levelling up⬇️👍🏼 www.gov.uk/government/p... Money to communities most in need - not those with the most engaged and time-free people (like so many comunity ownership bid and n'hood plan groups)

I me mine. I me mine. I me mine. I I me me mine.

Perhaps safety experts could devise a scheme to take dangerous drivers off the road? Just a though.

In shire districts, where there are few brownfield opportunities (see lots of pubs/nursing homes etc) I've seen sites entered into the register once they're permitted - so not forward policy, but very useful monitoring, and as the world knows, I ❤︎ data. 3/3

Just read the CPRE report - a headline generating report No analysis of the permissions on those brownfield. In particular how many of those permissions have been built out already (Report acks 1/3 of brownfield registers out of date) Had quick look at a couple of large county unitaries ⬇️ 1/n

In the AP's fact check of Trump's UN speech, I was able to do one of my favorite things: bash carbon footprints. apnews.com/article/trum...

I think guns and SUVs cause autism. We should ban those.

Somthing interesting in todays YouGov "daily questions": Random sample, but note the reform reluctance (reformers come out strong on "they should continue to serve their term")

Where my nerds at? ⤵️ 😊

It is a statistical fact that Trump, Vance, and this Far Right Radical regime tells more lies than any other administration in the last 249 years. They have no shame. This regime was documented to tell Americans an average of 21 lies per day. Always remember that. Stay true. Stay free America.

U.S. only country among the 184 it studied where foreign visitor spending would fall in 2025 apnews.com/article/inte...

Prime Minister Carney launches Build Canada Homes to supercharge homebuilding across the country https://www.newsbeep.com/122678/ Canadians are in a housing crisis. Despite recent improvements in several cities, far too many Canadians – particularly young…

[1/5] L’île de Pugad aux Philippines est menacée par la montée des eaux et l’enfoncement des sols. Avec 2.500 habitants, ce minuscule territoire de 7 ha subit trois inondations hebdomadaires liées à la subsidence (11 cm/an) et au réchauffement climatique. #geography #sealevelrise #Philippines

Oh, now I see. When someone not right-wing-greedy-for-generations does estate planning it's guilty, guilty, guilty of hypocrisy; When true blue torys do it it's good accounting advice.

Surprised this headline wasn't updated given personnel change. Still, interesting, and yes "Continuity is particularly critical in plan-making" www.propertyweek.com/insight/feed...

Watching the comp plan stuff and I wanted to note something I was slow to understand... The housing problem is all about local elected meddling. Initially I thought state zoning reform succeeded because of lobbying dynamics. But now I think its literal geographic distance.

"Homes funded by Vistry's affordable homes partners like local housing associations account for 73 per cent of completions" Surely that ⬆️ should be the headline www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...

Deadline extended on the decent home standard consutlation - TOMORROW deadline 1p: rentier class responding stongly it's too costly to provide decent homes for tenants 2p: More positive housing action from govt; shouting from left in opposition doesn't make positive change www.gov.uk/government/c...

La Russie a frappé l’Ukraine avec plus de drones Shahed au cours de l’été 2025 que durant toute l’année dernière

The complete opposite of English anti-neighbourly close boarded fences so each little patch of private space is a sterile sad little patch - doubly so with scourge of AstroTurf

Morning mood: brianbilston.com/2015/05/06/h...

One reason written and online surveys under sample low income / benefit households If you want to be fair in a survey, or planning consult, you have to knock on doors and talk with household!

Not planning. De-funded councils can no longer take active role in new public space and private housebuilding has no delivery role outside its red line. Also planning teams have little scope/resources to drive drive solutions

Heard a political reporter say this week "it's crises as no one knows what Starmer stands for" Surely obvious it's for sober governance in the public interest Unlike whacky chancers and self-promoting ideologues of the past decade. Political press thriving on manufactured drama & discord #labour

It has been revealed that Trump murdered 6 innocent fishermen in North Korea in 2019. He initially ordered Seal Team 6 to infiltrate North Korea and plant a listening device but they failed the mission immediately on arrival and murdered 6 civilians for just existing. Trump hid it from congress.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

🤣🤣🤣 One dimensional outrage: no one is looking at this £3.7mill house, therefore 'rachel reeves is killing the economy' But press always happy to print such nonsense www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/2542286...

Yes this is classic Trump, but putting fed jobs in states you deal with is ingrained into American politics. Space Farce never needed to be created, but Huntsville made sense for this. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Guessing same in UK:

Oh the humanity!

New analysis from @metoffice.gov.uk showing that the record-breaking hot UK summer of 2025 has been made much more likely by human-induced climate change and such a hot summer would be expected about once every 5 years in current climate. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

This seems serious - WTF is going on with the replies? Not what I expect from bluesky

"UK council tax is based on 1991 property valuations, grouped into eight price bands and paid by tenants. It is probably the world’s most unfair property tax: the poorest pay the highest tax as a percentage of property value and the richest the least."

And in today's least surpsing poll result... Reform/Tory come out strong for the rentier class. "earned income" vs "unearned income" is common parlance & key to tax code in US; we need public conciousness that collecting rent / playing markets is not earning a living - it's extracting one.

Meanwhile, here in rural land of moors/coast, this week we celebrate annual wankpanzer migration. In hols lanes & car parks are clogged with monster cars from city folk. Now they leave & it's small/mid hatch or saloon of real country living (Inc farmers/fishers) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Two takes on a story (But JFC the comments on torygraph story...)

I'm sorry DSIT but if you have time to shag your bosses you have time to update your open data in a punctual manner

I came to UK in 1995 and never encountered any negative comments about being a 'migrant' (obvs not, I'm white and English 1st Lang) It was 2016 when Brexit anger was pumped up (via troll farms& media) that it changed. Since then I get regular negative comments about being foreign.

Can't see a down side to any of thid; www.telegraph.co.uk/money/proper...

On this day in 1991, Ukraine declared its independence. Today and every day the UK stands with the brave people of Ukraine. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦🇬🇧

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Outstanding summary from @simonicity.bsky.social on issue of immigrant hotels - good explainer for xenophobes rushing to planning. Two comments: I'd have put PREVIOUS GOVERMENT in bold and caps "Fact & degree" & "each case on its merits" is planning mantra simonicity.com/2025/08/20/p...

Hotels for asylum seekers isn't this governments choice - it was Tory gov who stopped processing claims and started contRacted warehousing people. Also, Brexit origins of probs. Torys (now reform) own this. news.sky.com/story/epping...

In June 2025, it was roughly 8% or $33,500 cheaper to buy a new house from a builder than to buy an existing house. Builders have cut prices 13% from peak, and are giving generous mortgage rate buydowns on top of that. They're also building slightly smaller floor plans. #EconSky #Housing

Shhhh. No one tell the ChemTrail conspiracy nuts⬇️ Only a matter of time before weaponised penguins become the next monster under the bed