Modern slavery laws have already been weakened to the point where victims are at serious risk. Further undermining them will be absolutely catastrophic for vulnerable victims. It isn't modern slavery laws which need changing. It's Labour anti-asylum policies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Interested in how the city can fit your life? Join us on Monday evening for a screening and discussion featuring The Life Sized City film on Barcelona. Part of York Environment Festival 2025 and brought to you by www.yoco.uk - booking via www.yoco.uk/events/the-l...

If you're in or around York and want to see how old homes like ours can be made more comfortable (and sustainable) get yourself booked on some visits this Sunday - York Open Eco Homes at www.stnicks.org.uk/waste-and-su...

More than one city B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

Narrative in stone B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

Where is Hans Rosling and his Factfulness when you need him? Interestingly, his research found the specialists in the field to have the least accurate and most pessimistic perception of issues such as education levels, mortality and morbidity.

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

Early train to Leeds, so earlier walk alongside York's Knavesmire, where a bunch of people are off on an adventure

A kind of transparency B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

What public debate on X looks like 🤔

Politely but loudly B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

A simple reminder of change B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

The rich weave of the past B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

Well said @AndyShrimpton

A quick test fold of a quick test print of the sleeve for my mad seven-and-a-half-metre long photo-book project, looking disturbingly like it might actually become a thing B&W photography on film #believeinfilm

There is no effort to inform readers in the Mail, on the basis that interim relief has been granted to hear an arguable case with regard to protections against human trafficking. There's just a screaming headline about *waves hands* human rights. A diet of falsehoods is suffocating UK public debate.

Anywhere is possible B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

UK could raise £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries. Why do so many people want giant SUVs? They damage roads, create more pollution, cause more serious injuries and take up bigger parking spaces. UK buyers pay 20 times less tax than in other European countries. Tax them.

Moments of pause in time and space Theatre Romain, Lyon B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

This is a really good, thought-provoking thread. I recommend reading it all.

Affordable Social Housing with mostly Renewable Materials. Just imagine the empowerment of the constuction workers and renters who would work on good things and profit from the transition. Imagine the impact this would have on conscious decisions in elections. strawbuilding.eu/7-storey-mod...

One of many reasons why we need better structures to support Community Wealth Building ( and why www.yoco.uk is about more than just homes)...

In 2024, the UK lost nearly 13,500 shops & hospitality venues – an average of 37 per day. 🗣️ @nickplumb.bsky.social spoke to @bigissue.com on the battle for independent business in our places and spaces: "homogenisation kills local character"... buff.ly/CVICsMg

Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.

Only ten days until the sun sets on my exhibition of work (plus the colourful paintings of @singfoodie.bsky.social) at the City Screen upper gallery. So, Yorkies, if you're in town, take a look! B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon FA 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 400 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

The most elegant descent Lugdunum - musee et theatres romains, Lyon B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

The artwork formerly known as street frontage B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

You know how I love it when you read to me B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

Regulars of @yorkopenstudios.bsky.social will be relieved to know that as the chillier weather kicks in, the Hob Moor Terrace directory dispenser is hibernating in a quiet corner with the warmth of our router. Until next spring!

An unexpected encounter on the street B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

The passing of light and water B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

Returning from our recent week in Lyon-St.Just, I did what all architects / public engagement people do - sort out the laundry and write a blog. It's now up on the YoCo website, where I'm thinking about liveable neighbourhoods and culture... www.yoco.uk/blog/liveabl...

You can take your modernisation B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

Lights and shade B&W photography on film 📷 Nikon F4 🎞️ Ilford Delta Pro 100 #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #ilfordphoto

Spent yesterday afternoon developing and scanning B&W film from our recent Lyon trip but spent yesterday morning at Beningbrough so meanwhile here's a pic from there #phonephotography #xiaomi14

.. a beautiful walk through a wall last night ..

As part of York Environment Festival - yorkenvironmentfestival.org.uk - YoCo is hosting an online Screening & Discussion featuring the Life-Sized City film on Barcelona. Watch the film & discuss what we can learn about making our own city fit our lives. Booking:- www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-life-s...

Time for the annual plug for York Open Eco Homes - dates, info and booking at www.tickettailor.com/events/yce/1.... Our place is open for bookable guided tours on Sunday 28th Sept, and it's all part of (what has grown into) York Environment Festival 2025 - info at yorkenvironmentfestival.org.uk

Just back from Lyon which has wonderful public transport - buses, metro, trams, funicular plus good cycle infrastructure. Also trolley-buses; I'd spotted these mystery overhead devices & eventually discovered they're to guide the pantograph onto the wires when they hook up to the overhead power!

Any news on the new Minister for Flags?

These stories were posted by the telegraph within hours of each other. Everything is class warfare, and they are laughing at everyone that doesn't realise it.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The world would be depressing anyway at the moment, but there is something peculiarly crushing in being on a bus that's heading straight for a cliff and everyone screaming to change direction and the guy at the wheel maintaining that only he knows how to save everyone and it's definitely this way.

Fabulous crystalline glaze on a huge (person-size) vase, at the Musee des Beaux Arts, Lyon #phonephotography #xiaomi14

Carved from wood and in the Egyptian galleries of Lyon's Musee des Beaux Arts this illustration of assisting a cow to deliver it's young may I think be a simplification #phonephotography #xiaomi14

Reflected morning light, Lyon old town #phonephotography #xiaomi14

Yes. This forced flag-shagging is the antithesis of national confidence and real patriotism. It’s a snivelling payment to the fascist school bully who wants you to show your loyalty.

Impressed that Lyon - as a city very much associated with food - has food waste recycling points pretty much on every street corner. (They also have good cycling infrastructure, and hence lots of people on bikes/e-bikes, and many, *many* bike shops).

The snapshot doesn’t tell the full story 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 has had lower taxes historically which mean lower investment in infrastructure, healthcare etc Resulting in waiting lists, pot holes… Also lower pensions, incapacity benefits etc The healthy & wealthy benefit with 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿failing society

When you think of how much normalized harm we once took for granted—like smoking in restaurants—that has since vanished, and how much good that once seemed impossible—like car-free streets in Paris—you realize how much “impossibility” is a social construct designed to perpetuate monopolies & profit