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When you realise that the truth part of Truth Social translates as правда things start to fall into place

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Shared ownership leases (under new model) will be allowed within commonhold under white paper, along with leases for home purchase plans and equity release. Govt still considering how shared ownership will operate in existing buildings that convert to a commonhold www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Ministers have outlined plans to abolish the leasehold system 👏👏 @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social said the government would "continue to implement reforms to help millions of leaseholders who are currently suffering" #Leasehold www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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What happens if you can’t afford your affordable home? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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One bit of good news in general gloom about homelessness: the number of families with children living in bed and breakfasts beyond the six-week legal limit fell 8% in latest quarter (the first 'Labour' one). Still 3,470 of them though, 21 times higher than in 2010 www.gov.uk/government/s...

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A real triumph for leasehold exploiters, dodgy builders and building product manufacturers www.ft.com/content/377c...

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I'm often critical of the British lobby but when Cummings tried this stunt against left wing outlets the whole lobby boycotted until they backed down. The US press are pathetic.

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If circles of hell exist, the next one surely has to involve Peter Hitchens featuring on The Moral Maze

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Pretty sure that what later became the EU was created under American pressure ironically enough www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The Bezos logic for only running opinion articles that promote personal liberties and free markets could just as easily be applied to news. You can get that from the internet too provided you don't care if it's accurate or not. Whole point of great newspapers is a range of news and views

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Democracy dies in deference

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I'm sure I'm missing something but don't understand why we've to wait until now to investigate Grenfell companies or how they can be disbarred from public contracts under legislation from six years after the fire www.bdonline.co.uk/news/seven-f...

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New blog: Still Searching For Success builtplace.com/still-search... An update to my 2017 blog on the need for a framework for housing success and why the Government's 1.5million housing target could be dangerous without one.

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New report: The Government has promised "an ambitious strategy to reduce child poverty", due in Spring, but what will it take to achieve a meaningful reduction? www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications... (1/n)

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One unfinished student housing block that's falling apart sums up so much of what's gone wrong with construction and building safety www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Feels like this particular new town has been on the point of being built for more than 30 years www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/2496282...

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I’m Still Here is a superb film - would be very surprised if I see a better one this year or a better performance than the one by Fernanda Torres

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NEW: Homelessness Minister @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social has suggested the govt is looking at applying Awaab’s Law (which places a strict time limit on landlords doing repairs) to Temporary Accommodation. TA is often among the most poorly regulated and maintained housing. It would be a big change.

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We can't afford to invest in permanent social homes so instead we splurge ever more on the most temporary accommodation with the worst conditions on.ft.com/41vnTW7

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Did a similar investigation 5 years ago and what's changed is companies making even more from temporary accommodation. Mostly the same companies, so permanent for them if not the tenants

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I’d like to think I’m the first person to get into a flame war with VPOTUS from the swimming pool of Woburn Center Parcs at half-term.

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Reject self-doubt! It worked for us with Liz Truss and it will work again!

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This Q&A with Sir Keir Starmer reveals a lot about what's good in and what's missing from Labour's housing plans - the first one especially metro.co.uk/2025/02/20/k...

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Read this interview with chief executive of Notting Hill Genesis a couple of times and still not sure what I think. On the one hand it's good that it's focussing on providing a good service to existing residents 1/2 www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/patrick...

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'It’s worrying that the government seems to identify the interests of large companies as identical with promoting growth' The picture not necessarily connected to the piece but seems apt on.ft.com/3XfBy11

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Waking up and checking what else has happened overnight a giving a whole new meaning to doomscrolling. Not a great idea to start off the day

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This level of fine seems more like a fee for doing business than a punishment www.bbc.com/news/article...

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At the point where I’m expecting Trump to say next that the Ukrainian elections must be monitored by independent Russian observers

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I simply could not tell you what McSweeney believes in. I know what he doesn’t believe. But I have literally no idea what he wants to do with the power he so accurately and purposefully sought. My response to Get In.

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Spent an hour asking my mum’s Alexa (in uk) about the name of the sea between the USA and Mexico. Discovered it’s the Gulf of America formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico but any follow-up question I could think of - why was it renamed, when, by who - met with ‘sorry, I don’t know that one’

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This week on Substack, I discuss London's oldest surviving council housing - in leafy Richmond - and the Liberal councillor who led local and national efforts to build decent affordable homes for working people: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/londons-fi...

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StopTB has a new report estimating the impact of the foreign aid freeze. It's useful to understand the huge impact that global health efforts have everyday, and worrying. Some highlights... 🧵

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