Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

England has 25.8 million homes and 4,632 were demolished in the last year, at which rate the average existing home will need to last for around five and a half thousand years.

A million low-income households have lost an average of £1,500 each because of Local Housing Allowance Freeze, says new analysis by @theifs.bsky.social ifs.org.uk/articles/fre...

Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist Gary "Mani" Mounfield has died at 63. Photographer Mitch Ikeda posted a photo he took of Mani during Primal Scream's 2004 Japan tour.

Some very impressive data + policy analysis here

New report: What should we do about mayoral scrutiny? www.mysociety.org/2025/11/18/m...

@alextoal.bsky.social raises some good issues as to why it is politically easier to spend £39 billion on building social homes than £2.5 billion on preventing homelessness housingalex.substack.com/p/on-lha-gen... #housingUK

More on the new housing strategy in Ireland - asks some interesting questions about what a strategy should be and what outcomes you want from it (Highly relevant to the strategy that's coming soon (ish) in England)

A crude comparison: adjusting for population, the Irish government's plan for 300,000 new homes in five years is more than double the UK government's target of 1.5m for England. 72,000 social homes in five years is the equivalent of almost 800,000 in England www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Safe travels to Nakadai Tatsuya (1932-2025), the great, great Japanese actor of both film and stage, who disappeared into every role he played. It's hard to imagine any story of Japanese cinema without him.

Japanese twitter taking the Suica penguin news very normally

📢Where and How to Build 1.5 million homes in Britain? New research report + micro-neighbourhood level mapping tool with @nikdatta.bsky.social uses 20 billion housing searches to map demand Map wheretobuild.warwick.ac.uk Research report + 350 customised LA reports: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

'The idea that X (Twitter) is some kind of counterpoint to consensus or a place for any kind of useful discourse or a spot to hang out in which is to be challenged healthily, is a complete nonsense' via @unamullally.bsky.social That's why we are leavin X en masse www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Roll up! Excited to be hosting a new kleptoscope at London's Frontline Club, with Sue Hawley, of @spotlightcorruption.org, Jess Garland of @electoralreform.bsky.social and @liambyrnemp.bsky.social. We'll be talking about how to save democracy from big money. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kleptoscop...

Nothing like a nice long flight for catching up on #30DayMapChallenge 🤪. Here's Day 8 — urban — right on time. A map of Paris buildings by age of construction. A real beauty if I do say so myself. 😍

Which London boroughs are the best for cycling? We’ve been working on developing new open data indicators of cycle network quality- citygeographics.org/2025/11/07/d...

There wouldn't be much demand for this if the planning system worked as intended, with plans setting out clear criteria and applications being objectively assessed against them. But in reality some plan policies are vague/subjective and some decision makers take the number of objections into account

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

"London is not a bad place to live, and does a lot better on measures such as crime than many of the populist right ... would argue. However, as so often, housing costs are a pervasive drag on liveability, pushing people into poverty, hobbling aspiration and jeopardising the UK’s prosperity."

City of Sickos

There have been fewer than 1,000 shooting victims in New York City over the last 12 months. That's the first time time below 1,000 since April 2020 and a 56% drop since the height of the surge in 2020/2021.

Say what you like about Rachel Reeves, she has done wonderful things for tenants' rights awareness

What to see how I turned thousands of live buses into charts like this? And what it all means for mayors wanting to integrate their public transport systems? Come to see me talk about all this and more to our event at 1pm: www.centreforcities.org/event/report...

#30DayMapChallenge Day 2 - Lines #popelevation #joyplot of the UK

#30DayMapChallenge Day 1 : Points. Map of Airbnb listings by municipality and incidence rate 🗺️ in France | Data: 928k geolocations of listings scraped by the Collectif National des Habitants Permanents (CNHP) and housing units number by @insee.fr #Airbnb #housing

If you saw this chart in isolation it would be incredibly hard not to conclude that being connected to nature sucks www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Niche blog post #2: what economic research says about the affordability impacts of building housing jamesjgleeson.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/e...

Niche blog post #1: what stamp duty statistics say about how many home purchases are for "additional" dwellings rather than primary homes jamesjgleeson.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/a...

This week construction started on the next phase of Newham's Royal Dock Corridor - in partnership with the GLA. 🚲Protected bike lanes 🚗Safer speeds ☔️🌿Planting & SuDS 🚶Safer crossings & pedestrian connectivity 👏 @plaistovian.bsky.social & team

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag? KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag. CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this? KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable. KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

On the subject of how many households are "net recipients", this new chart of ONS data suggests that indirect taxes have plummeted. But I suspect this is mostly due to this survey missing more and more spending each year - rendering any related time series fairly useless.

Seeing this construction project was mind blowing: in Copenhagen, multiple apartment buildings are being built INDOORS and on-site, in a single “Site Cover” temporary shelter.

Important context from @sustainabletall.bsky.social. There is no point in talking about embodied emissions in concrete towers without considering the counterfactual, holistically.

A key thing that these "nature deserts" analyses often fail to control for is the existence of cities. In this case, first-time buyers tend to be younger, younger people tend to live in cities, cities have less green space per capita, so "first-time buyers are being forced into nature deserts".

🚨 Amelia King, volunteering for the Women's Land Army in 1943, was rejected by Essex farmers. This week's Substack post on John Scurr House in Stepney looks at the racial discrimination suffered by residents and its later redevelopment. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/john-scurr...

"Same-sex couples in South Korea can now be counted as “spouses” in the national census — a simple checkbox that, for many, marks long-overdue recognition in a country that still denies them legal marriage."

Manhattan plot.

Here's an interesting one. Objections to surfacing a path so that people can cycle on it. In part the objections are in case this unlocks the possibility of housing one day being built nearby without as much need for parking spaces (the horror!) swanseabaynews.com/protest-plan...

A young opposition politician once compared housing policy to a game of Buckaroo! - pile on too much and the donkey throws it all off. Have we reached that point? I've tried to answer that in this post (and you'll find out who the politician was...) 👇 👇 👇 longwall.substack.com/p/buckaroo-t...

For women, the problem is compounded by stupidly small pockets. Women now live in a world where phone manufacturers think we have hands the size of bears, while jeans manufacturers think we have hands the size of pixies. pudding.cool/2018/08/pock...

The 'slums' of Victorian Manchester actually housed wealthy doctors and engineers, mixed in with poor weavers, a @camhistory.bsky.social study shows. @stjohnscollege.bsky.social historian @emvchung.bsky.social surprise discovery undermines major assumptions about the city: bit.ly/3WLt3dl #history

'Proximity and Segregation in Industrial Manchester', by @emvchung.bsky.social in The Historical Journal www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... Uses digitised 1851 Census records to highlight the importance of temporal rather than spatial segregation (contra Engels and others).

London parents: ever wondered how many pupils are driven to your primary school? Now you can find out! Simply type the school’s name into our first-of-its-kind data dashboard - link below #solvetheschoolrun 👉https://www.solvetheschoolrun.org/schooltraveldata

#Transport for #London Have Your Say: #TfL proposes a new Superloop express route SL15 from Clapham Junction to Eltham via the South Circular, using single-deck buses. Share your views by 30 November 2025 on the route, stops, and service timings. haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/sl15-superloop

One good option for #Budget2025 would be to reform Vehicle Excise Duty. The current tax regime – particularly for EVs – presents a fiscal challenge, distributional challenge and harms challenge. 🧵 www.thesun.co.uk/motors/37047...

huge respect for this

New week, new job at Resolution Foundation? We have a vacancy at the top of our research team to plan and manage major strands of our research and policy output. In particular, they will develop and lead our work on growth and productivity, building on the Economy 2030 Inquiry.

Hoshoryu was gifted a giant soy sauce after becoming Grand Champion in London.

All the London food groups.

Paddington staff getting their Sumo selfies