Quantity surveyor Ross Cremin set out from scratch with the goal of a #selfbuild #passivehouse on a site in rural County Longford. Here he tells the story of his project and offers advice for others thinking of building their own passive house. mailchi.mp/passivehouse...

Back in print! The Radburn Idea 1. Also available, The Radburn Idea 2! Stories of how postwar English architects and planners attempted to produce pedestrian-friendly, car-free housing estates. £10 each, postage free. For sale here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com

if you can't afford clothes, it's not clothing poverty, it's poverty. If you can't afford sanitary protection, it's not period poverty, it's poverty. Divvying up poverty into little bits hides the fact that poverty is poverty and gives right-wingers an in to say "poor people need to budget better."

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

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If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

Back of the net from Glendenning on the Guardian’s World Cup draw live feed. @footballweekly.bsky.social

Check out the new bathing water results here: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...

2021 🧵 Why SupplySupplySupply won’t solve #housing affordability problem #1 ‘we are doomed to failure if we see it purely as a game of numbers.. lowering the bar to get developers to build tiny dim carbon-intensive socially-isolating unaffordable boxes’ alastairparvin.medium.com/if-the-uk-bu...

If you're ever upset about the state of US land use policy, just spend 30 seconds reading anything about the UK. Automated NIMBYism! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

BY ME at #HouseMagazine at #PoliticsHome The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong... www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

on cities www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff

YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP. Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people ...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business" It's £10ph FFS! Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger DO YOU SEE IT NOW? Spread far & wide. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

80% of reform MPs were privately educated vs. 7% of the population as a whole. It can only be a matter of time before Pochin hits out at this egregious over-representation. Any day now…

The calm before the emotional storm.

What weird chemistry makes a game under the lights feel so exciting?

Day out in Suffolk. Bit of a mixed bag.

la IA és un senyor blanc

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

This is a fairly extraordinary read on Nathan Gill.

Nathan’s mate Nigel sure did seem to want to brush it all away when questioned by Matt Frei back in 2019.

Is it "move to Dubai"?

A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous

Here's a thread about the Conservative councillor who came up with an imaginative way to block a solar farm. His colleague's further point - about the lack of a strategy to handle multiple applications for solar farms - is not quite so daft. It's called "planning".

#NFFC 🌳🔴⚪🔴 THANK YOU NUNO 👏👏

‘You, Boy! This is actually NOT my house, It’s my girlfriend’s. I misspoke.’

Lucy Connolly was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and her tweet was part of the tinder that lit violence, intimidation, looting, and thuggery across England last year. The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Utter drivel from snivelling Chris Mason. No mention they platformed a convicted racist, a loony conspiracy doctor & a bunch of failed Tory MPs.Poll after poll consistently shows most Briton’s hate Farage and his band of thugs.Time @uklabour.bsky.social sorted BBC bias.

Reform is a hot mess of race-baiters, grifters, political rejects, climate science deniers and very rich, very selfish dickheads. But a dull-witted minority think they’re worth a go because they’re “authentic”. Yes. Authentically ignorant, racist, corrupt, nasty and next-level useless.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

You know what, fair play to Scooby Doo villains. They walk into a room dressed as a ghost, see a talking dog on its hind legs making the world’s biggest sandwich and somehow manage to stay in character.

This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.

Reform UK: “Free speech! You can’t say anything these days!” Also Reform UK: “You’re banned from reporting on our council because we don’t like what you said.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The campaign to present Connelly as a political prisoner seems (& ofc at one level is) demented, but it has a purpose: the right see that a primary reason the 2024 riots petered out was mass jailings of perpetrators & supporters, and they want to delegitimise that & prevent it happening next time

Robert Jenrick having a compltely normal one.

An important thread. What is Reform UK up to? ~AA

And so it begins… Decent start.

Who remembers when The Sun branded Nigel Farage a racist?

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

"If East Anglia Bylines can find the evidence that the protests in Epping and Diss are merely organised right wing thuggery, how is it the rest of the media haven’t done so?"

If only we had these heroes nowadays. Nae Pasaran is a 2018 documentary about a group of workers at a Rolls-Royce factory in Scotland, who refused to work on Chilean Air Force parts from 1974-78 due to the atrocities carried out in Chile by the Pinochet dictatorship

Statue in Colchester marks the site of the first known performance of the “pull my finger” joke, in 1806.