Edward Foley

The saddest post I have ever had to write, but on Monday I lost my wonderful wife Miranda to cancer. I’ve been too upset to post and the kids are devastated naturally. I’m thankful for all the kind words of support from my friends in property and my #rugbyfamily

Tough gig today part of a team trying to save the life of a Para veteran, fingers crossed he pulls through🤞 We must do better by our veterans😢

HRH The Princess Royal inspecting the Combined Cadet Force contingents at Bedford School as part of their Annual General Inspection. @BedfordSchool #cadets

Gap between first-time buyer and second stepper home hits record high… estateagenttoday.co.uk/breaking-news/…

This morning I’ve been with @apianhealth_ @Wing at The Nelson Health Centre in Merton Park, Wimbledon watching a drone collection taking blood samples to St George’s Hospital.

@russellquirk Priority should be the enthusiasm and ability of the person and if the car is clean and tidy. A clean and well maintained car says a lot about the person.

‘Your car is too old for you to be an estate agent’ says Colchester based snobs, haart. No wonder people hate estate agents. propertyindustryeye.com/estate-agency-…

Anyone else remember this ad? 👇🏼 Great find @ClassicAdvertz

London has built lots of flats…but few people want to buy them Since 2014, some 20,000 flats have been completed in Wandsworth. But nearly 40% of modern flats there have sold at a loss in the last 5 years archive.is/A3rfy

@HannahIamthest1 I still remember watching this on TV and will never forget these two soldiers set upon by that mob.

19th March, 1988. Corporal Derek Wood aged 24, and Corporal David Howes, aged 23, both of the Royal Corps of Signals, were savagely beaten and murdered by a baying mob of IRA supporters attending a funeral in Belfast. Lest we Forget these brave young men murdered by cowardly IRA scum.

UK to be hotter than Greece with 20C heat as Met Office issues new forecast mylondon.news/news/uk-world-…

Shadow bank collapse floods London with hundreds of luxury properties cityam.com/shadow-bank-co…

Shadow bank collapse floods London with hundreds of luxury properties bit.ly/41dG0yM

Heartened by the positive coverage in todays press about the new home for my VC and GC collection - this one from @Telegraph

The Most Expensive Street in London in 2026 timeout.com/london/news/re…

‘We've got an almighty mess about to arise...' Property expert Anne Ashworth breaks down the ‘seismic change’ that is about to hit the private rental market.

Second home stamp duty means 2m houses ‘missing’ from rental market cityam.com/second-home-st…

How Founder and Employee-Led Branding Became the Best Channel for Lovable: "For any founder, I would suggest deploy founder-led social, employee-led social. Build in public, recruit people to be your biggest fans. And then you can start thinking about, okay, where else do I want to be? Do I wanna buy a billboard? Do I wanna invest into paid marketing? But first, organic strategy that every startup should be going into is employee-led." @ElenaVerna What does no one know that everyone should know about @antonosika @lukeharries @im_roy_lee @rauchg @karrisaarinen?

@LordAshcroft @NAM_London @VC_and_GC_Assoc Fantastic! Great news and so glad they will be on display @NAM_London

Delighted to announce I have reached an agreement with the National Army Museum which will mean that my collection of Victoria Crosses and George Crosses - the largest in the world - will go on display there @NAM_London @VC_and_GC_Assoc lordashcroft.com/2026/03/lord-a…

Every pane of glass around you. 🪟 Every window. Every phone screen. Every car windscreen. Every skyscraper.🇬🇧 All made the same way. All using the same process. Invented in a kitchen sink in Lancashire. His name was Sir Alastair Pilkington. He wasn't even related to the glass company. He just happened to share the name and married into the family. In 1952 he was doing the washing up at home. He watched the grease float on the water. Perfectly flat. Undisturbed. And thought: what if molten glass could do that? Before this moment, flat glass had been made the same way for three hundred years. 😰 You melted sand. You poured it into sheets. Then you ground it. And polished it. By hand. For hours. A third of every sheet was wasted in the process. The work was brutal. The results were inconsistent. Nobody questioned it. That was just how glass was made. Pilkington went to his bosses at Pilkington Brothers in St Helens with his idea. They backed him. It took seven years. It cost £7 million. An enormous sum in the 1950s. There were years where nothing worked. The company nearly went bankrupt. His idea: pour molten glass at 1,100°C onto a bath of molten tin. Glass is less dense than tin. It floats. It spreads. Both surfaces fire-polished perfectly flat by the heat. No grinding. No polishing. No waste. 🔥 In January 1959, it worked. The float glass process was licensed to manufacturers across the world. Over 40 companies. Over 30 countries. Today it accounts for over 90% of all flat glass production on Earth. Every window you have ever looked through in your entire life was almost certainly made using this single British process. Sir Alastair Pilkington was knighted in 1970. Elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969. Made a life peer in 1995. Baron Pilkington of St Helens. He died the same year. Before he could take his seat in the House of Lords. A British man with an idea who changed every building on Earth. 🇬🇧 Be part of us - proudofus.co.uk Be proud of us. 🙏🇬🇧

What’s wrong with being proud of our history?

Vape shops — I can share some disturbing new claims about rogue vape shops and an ‘epidemic’ of grooming. Trading standards officers tell us of complaints children are being handed free vapes in return for ‘sexual favours.’🧵