‘If a drug boasted such benefits [as the arts] governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Happy Birthday Neil Young! @michaelstipe.bsky.social is among the 80 artists who have picked & submitted a favorite Neil Young song in Stereogum's tribute to Neil on his 80th birthday, today. Scroll through and read Michael’s pick and the story that accompanies it... stereogum.com/2476602/80-a...

This country needs a new understanding of what rural development should be. Sustainable homes and amenities at the density of Italian hill towns 4 storeys minimum going down to terraced townhouse density on the perimeter not whatever car led nonsense this is. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Shocking to see something this misinformed from an mp. Creating unworkable and unhealthy communities is just building up worse problems for the future. Mental health, obesity problems etc.

Actually being in touch with people and offering them things that responds to their needs. Might catch on.

Amazing set from Neil Young at #Glastonbury looking forward to seeing him live at Hyde Park.

Really need a whole city civic event like this in London!

So the Government is aiming for on average 300k housing completions per year but current housing *starts* are around the 115k mark. That means starts will have to increase to well over 400k per year or more to have a chance of catching up and delivering 1.5m in 5 years.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Stepping into a smooth quiet electric bus is a thing of wonder. All the hype around robotaxis etc and we already have something out of science fiction transforming central London that’s accessible and public!

Couldn’t agree more. Treat social housing as critical infrastructure to unlock billions, says Peabody boss www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Would you live in a 25 sq m Isokon minimum flat? When one was exhibited at Dorland Hall in 1933, 12 flats were let before building work had begun! Visit a real one on Sunday May 25, 1100-1300. There may be a wait. A donation of £10 per visitor is appreciated. archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/features/jun...

3) Ultimately, migration shouldn’t be managed by the same government department as crime and domestic security. It should be its own department - with a focus on community cohesion, infrastructure, and the country’s real economic needs.

Dreaming of an alternate reality where Starmer took the Spanish approach. Sitting on a booming economy & thriving social care system would have made Farage look very silly in 2029. I think that dream is now dead. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Just four in 10 new homes in England currently come with solar power The body representing local authorities think it should be *all* of them It would benefit bill-payers & the climate, saving people £440 per year news.sky.com/story/end-th...

Great article - You help "left behind" areas by helping the nearest big city. Our problem is the relative economic weakness of our big cities outside London.

NEW: Paris residents are voting in a referendum today on whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised & greened. "For the past 25 yrs we've gradually been reclaiming public space for pedestrians & gentle traffic, & with 'garden streets' to create lungs within neighbourhoods.”

This is not sustainable and Labour is not meeting the moment: All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Isokon Gallery is now open to visitors for 2025! If you missed the exhibition ‘Through a Bauhaus Lens: Edith Tudor-Hart and Isokon’ and exhibition of previously unseen 1933-34 photographs, there is still time. For more information, please visit the Isokon Gallery website: isokongallery.org

“The new society it imagined didn’t come into being – not for want of trying by the socialists, Stalinists and anarchists who lived in its microcosm here in the 1930s; but the building still stands as a statement of expanded possibility”

The first comprehensive publication in English on Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, best known as the designer of the Frankfurt Kitchen. Now available at our Gallery, and online too Isokon gallery.org/products/margarete-schutte-lihotzky-architecture-politics-gender-new-perspectives-on-her-life-and-work

UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)

Labour's promise to build 1.5m new homes is already sunk. Because it's terrified of state intervention and it's terrified of free movement it's going to leave another generation crammed into shoddy and overpriced rental properties. on.ft.com/3DpzKMj

If you love #modernism, you’ll love being part of our team of volunteer gallery assistants. Recruiting now for the 2025 season.

This Sunday, 2 March, from 1100-1300, you can visit one of the Isokon flats in exchange for a £10 donation to the gallery. There may be a wait. First come, first served.

Designs like this are why embodied carbon really needs to be regulated. The overhang will cause a signficant increase in the volume of concrete and steel in the foundations.

Getting ready for the new season. The Isokon Gallery reopens on Saturday 1 March, 1100-1600 on Saturdays and Sundays, until the end of November.

That's 31 blocks of flats - around 6,000 new homes, including social housing - empty because the government tried to outsource the new process of signing off on building safety. This failed, so they had to take it all back in house. - Meanwhile 100,000+ families stuck in temporary accommodation.

Crosstown doughnuts, 115 Cannon Street, formerly the Mortimer Gall Electrical Centre, in Vitrolite and glass bricks, designed by Isokon resident Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry, 1936. (Source of 1936 image: Historic England Archive cc47_02711) #craftbycrosstown #gropius

"The number of families made homeless last year outnumbered new social homes being built by more than seven to one" We need a massive council housebuilding programme Always worth reading Vicky Spratt on housing in @inews.co.uk inews.co.uk/opinion/inst...

NEW: How much wealth is too much?🤔 In partnership with @patrioticmillionaires.org we've published a new report exploring the case for an Extreme Wealth Line. We spoke to politicians, policy makers and millionaires to get their thoughts on the concept - here's some of what we found.

Sounds like a good idea

🚨🚨 Breaking: The French Human Rights League (LDH) is asking the public to join them in a mass exodus of #X, formerly Twitter, on January 20. 🧵 www.euronews.com/next/2025/01...

Musk peut-il perdre de l’influence si politiques, institutions et médias quittent X ? Oui, répond le mathématicien @chavalarias.bsky.social, qui encourage au départ : «C’est nous qui donnons son pouvoir à Elon Musk. On peut le lui retirer» Interview :

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

According to sensible people the NHS and pensions are unsustainable. Meanwhile spending on both is lower than most other advanced economies. But there seems to be an unthinking consensus that things must inevitably get worse.

Great to see architecture/built environment community more active here now! Let's see if anyone bites on this question: does Labour really believe that New Towns will have an impact on their housing targets within the next 4.5yrs given time to planning and typical build-out rates? If yes why?

UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Government should make building hundreds of thousands of council homes its defining purpose. No other policy, achievable within a Parliament, would bring greater social and economic benefits.

The government’s latest accounts show its debt’s fallen massively youtu.be/nNcNuDKSKAc?... The government’s own accounts, just released, show that its total liabilities owing fell between 2022 and 2023 by £1.5 trillion. The claim that we’re burdened by debt is now nonsense. When will they admit it?

This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons. A thread…🧵

Wish this got as much coverage as the landed gentry having to pay some tax ... Child poverty is at its highest ever level - but yeah let's interview whinging millionaire landowners about their 'hardship' ...

A new UN report finds that the policies and practices of Israel are "consistent with the characteristics of genocide". There is no excuse for saying you did not know. This is genocide in plain sight. www.ohchr.org/en/documents...