James Caspell FCIH

Croydon Colonnade, a porcelain palace for pedestrians I designed in south London

Heavy, emotional day in Gaza. The scale of destruction is beyond imagination, the human toll immense. Yet the resilience of the Palestinian people is just as clear. @UNDP is on the ground, assisting them and kickstarting early recovery. But we want and we need to do more.

social housing for Dagenham cottages for older people around a shared mews… people got neighbourly pretty sharpish

The most important film of our time. ⬇️

Pleased to welcome the Secretary of State for Employment to our ever popular apprenticeship event, including our own W 11 Housing Management team providing employment and trading on the Lancaster West estate. #RBKC

Watch | On stage in Barcelona, Pep Guardiola wore a keffiyeh and opened with “Salam Alaykoum” as he spoke for the children of Gaza during the Act x Palestine charity event. Guardiola condemned the world’s abandonment of Palestinians, recalling images of children searching for parents buried under rubble, and stressed that solidarity must go beyond words to real action. All funds raised at the event are dedicated to grassroots and humanitarian projects in Palestine.

The results of years of co-design are increasingly visible! Credit to @BramleyHouse for their hard work, engagement and leadership working with @LancWestEstate since 2018.

New social housing in Islington from around 2010 (yes, really).

Most people hear “heat pump” and think of small air-source units at home. But Germany is building one of the world’s largest heat pumps in Mannheim: a 162 MW river-source system using heat from the Rhine. Big reminder that heat-pumps scale far beyond households — they can decarbonise whole cities.

Truly remarkable: Poland used to be a climate laggard. Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar. In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity. Today it is at 51%.

We often forget how far we have come: Today almost 3/4 of EU electricity generation is from non-fossil energy sources. It is not long ago that fossil fuels dominated the EU's electricity mix. This year their share is approaching 1/4 of EU electricity generation. Source is @ember_energy

Milan is stepping up its climate plans. Mayor @BeppeSala has committed to reinforcing the EU’s largest Low Emission Zone and launching new community solar projects to build a cleaner, healthier city. #WMS25

@Collins___101 2-0 and we are joint 17th according to the rule book - Points, GD, GF will be identical. Head to head only kicks in end of the season.

If we beat Burnley 4-0 we’re out the bottom three

Across the #WestBank, settler violence targeting the annual olive harvest has continued, with ongoing attacks on Palestinian farmers and lands. October 2025 is on track to be the most violent month since UNRWA began tracking settler violence in 2013. “The annual olive harvest is the primary livelihood for tens of thousands of Palestinians, with olive trees deeply rooted in Palestinian heritage and identity. Attacks on the olive harvest threaten the very way of life for many Palestinians and further deepen the coercive environment in the occupied West Bank. Families should be allowed unhindered access to their lands to harvest their olives in safe conditions,” says Roland Friedrich, Director of UNRWA Affairs for the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

The aid getting into #Gaza is a drop in the ocean of what’s urgently needed. All crossings need to open. Aid needs to be unrestricted. UNRWA has around 6,000 trucks worth of vital humanitarian supplies in Jordan and Egypt waiting to go in. Lift the ban on UNRWA aid.

Feedback loops and learning are often misunderstood or ignored. Batteries are a prime example: as batteries are scaled their costs have fallen amd as costs fall more batteries get deployed and so on. We have written about this earlier this year in a piece on system dynamics and feedback loops. scurveeconomics.org/wp-content/upl…

Entering Gaza earlier today. Amid practical work to save lives, we also bear witness.

The Elizabeth Line in London moves 800,000 people daily. No highway at its busiest point moves that many people daily in North America.

🚴‍♀️ Paris saw a +240% surge in cycling (2018–2023) — proof that bold mobility policy works. Safe lanes, secure parking & better design turned bikes from niche to normal. When cities invest, people ride. #Cycling #UrbanMobility #Paris

We have returned, like we’ll always do. 📍Gaza City