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@DownieSeb @40PercentGerman Paging @TerribleMaps

Can't work out if this was made by a German who’s never been to the USA or an American that’s never been to Germany? There's plenty to suggest it could be both.

@Sam_Dumitriu This is nonsense. They added 30% to the largest urban councils as: - it meant they could shift numbers from their constituencies - they knew it was undeliverable and they were labour councils they could blame while 'keeping' the 300k national target Political expediency only!

It took the Conservatives 12 years to realise that concentrating housebuilding in areas unlikely to vote for you is the politically expedient way to get homes built. It has taken Labour just over a month.

@SteveAkehurst This to me is the critical transaction. The entire market is dedicated to maximising the value for the landowner at the cost of everything else. My preference would be for a CPO process twinned with local plans. Public receives the value and can then dictate the development.

Incidentally this also explains many other maladies: it’s why developers cut corners on quality, on infrastructure & affordable housing. The developer with the best deal for the landowner is de facto the one with the worst deal for consumers. Is it surprising we get NIMBYs?

Neglected fact: getting more housebuilding is about more than planning reform. Here’s an important graph for understanding that: Developers have consistently under-delivered on their planning permissions for years. 🧵 on why and why it matters

@DarkSunShining @thor_benson @the_transit_guy Same for me. Was never good, but great people. Gave it up as I grew and needed new kit that was just too expensive, even second hand, to keep up. Can't begin to imagine how expensive to do competition standard is. And a sport can't imagine flush with sponsorship cash either.

@thor_benson @the_transit_guy As someone who was involved with archery at the beginning level who had people telling my mom I could go, I can tell you just my practice bows were hundreds and coaching was LORD! My mom said later I was good, but I was NOT interested in that level of it.

@badlibtakes @GeorgistSteve I don't generally like shouting into the void here but I think this thread explains the thinking... x.com/AlexandraErin/… If you think Trump riding on a storm of anti-immigrant anger won't effect your life because you're family has legal status I'd say that was awfully naive.

@GeorgistSteve But I’m as America-first as it gets and my husband has a Green Card. My kids are dual citizens. How do you square that with the broad stroke you’re painting millions of Americans with based on the comments of a few?

wait….do….do democrats think conservatives want legal immigrants deported?

@nicola_tanner Savagely attacked my knee you mean

@Jonarific84 You complained when Monty did that to you.

@Oscar_Jay_Selby @CentreforCities Thanks

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@darrylmorris Well done for getting there before Louis Theroux.

For the last few years, I’ve been spending time with a man who claims to be God, and the group he has built around him. Who are they? What lead them to believe in this man? Is this just modern spirituality… or a cult? God Next Door // BBC Radio 4 // 21st July // 19:15

@jamesrbuk I am aware of a council that wanted to place a policy preventing hot food takeaways within 800m of any school. Except that dismissed every single designated centre across the council. Then you get in debates on where from. The school boundary, the access, the centre point.

@Dorianlynskey @marxculture @guardian I do wonder how much of this is driven by internet traffic analytics. I assume effectively troll columns get more engagement (make more money) for them so it would make clear business sense. Dunno how much the columnists are caught by the trust requirements for the Grauniad.

@GaryLineker @RestIsFootball @MicahRichards Why do you think there are such slim pickings for English top level coaches and what can be done to improve this?

A little request for post tournament questions for an episode of @RestIsFootball for @MicahRichards and me. Just reply to this post with your question. Cheers 🙌🏻

@Phillystunna221 @NoContextBrits Closest UK allegory is the wildlings are the Picts of what would later become Scotland, which would make the Westerosi the Romans behind Hadrian's wall, but they're loosely based on the 12th century 'the anarchy' period. Which I guess makes the white walkers the vikings???

@NoContextBrits I ask this in all seriousness and realize it’s not based on the UK but can’t help it because of the map…are the Scottish meant to the the Wildlings or the White Walkers in game of thrones?

@nicola_tanner Used to find it quite satisfying with Phoebe. Layla didn't seem to get them as much.

Irrational hatred for these clumps of grass seeds I constantly have to pick out of Monty's tail. Horrible things.

@anon_opin There was a 99% design podcast about this very issue in LA pca.st/episode/c2e284… The latino landscaper community made a big noise about it killing their independent businesses because they couldn't do as many gardens in the same time so less pay, making them unviable.

Noisy bastard 2-stroke garden tools can be phased out immediately. Cordless electric and hand tools are just fine for all garden needs now.

@ChrisO_wiki @rolandmcs The fact this is a 20 yr old Futurama gag shows you they're beyond parody.

@rolandmcs Fanatical, I tell you!

Evening.

@GrahamSmith_ Maybe he made a bet with someone

I’m still puzzled as to why Jeremy Hunt stayed on and contested this election. He doesn’t want to be leader and is unlikely to be in government ever again.

@davidyelland @afneil It's just this meme right mixed with willfully ignoring that the Tories have been stuffing posts across society wherever they can with their preferred candidates for the last 14 years.

@kopdublin81 @implausibleblog @campbellclaret Just to show you the scale of the problem. Even that fell woefully short of the 300k/yr experts have been talking about as necessary since Gordon Brown was chancellor.

@implausibleblog @campbellclaret Lol there is nothing radical about Keir Starmer He will do what the establishment want him to do Planning reform wasn't needed to build record numbers during the period before the financial crisis

Alastair Campbell, "It is a fact that people wanted to get rid of the Tories, that's the difference between five years ago and today, they see an alternative.. A win is a win, a landslide is a landslide" @campbellclaret Cathy Newman, "Do you think he could surprise us? AC, "I think this early period of his premiership he will have enormous power.. When you say growth is the number one mission.. This is the first time a party has put planning reform at the heart of it's campaign" CN, "He could be radical on planning?" AC, "At every stage of his career he has been underestimated and then overdelivered" CN, "Farage says he is coming for Labour" AC, "You can't write off Nigel Farage but I think you cannot out Farage Farage.. Populism has never worked.. He is a creature of populism.. He isn't there to solve problems but to exploit them.. Labour has to show it can solve the problems the country is facing, including the problems that he exploits"