MichaelLondonSF
@michaellondonsf.bsky.social
semi-retired / activist on London housing and planning / UCL Bartlett / grandfather JustSpace.org.uk michaeledwards.org.uk
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The improvement in the employment rate of non-EU migrants to the UK over the past 15 years is remarkable, especially since the pandemic.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The improvement in the employment rate of non-EU migrants to the UK over the past 15 years is remarkable, especially since the pandemic.
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Local Housing Allowance rates have been realigned to market rents in just two of the last 13 years.
Current Government policy is for them to remain frozen . This risks a record 'affordability gap' opening between LHA rates and the 30th percentile of local rents.
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Current Government policy is for them to remain frozen . This risks a record 'affordability gap' opening between LHA rates and the 30th percentile of local rents.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Local Housing Allowance rates have been realigned to market rents in just two of the last 13 years.
Current Government policy is for them to remain frozen . This risks a record 'affordability gap' opening between LHA rates and the 30th percentile of local rents.
➡️ buff.ly/gJR1hmO
Current Government policy is for them to remain frozen . This risks a record 'affordability gap' opening between LHA rates and the 30th percentile of local rents.
➡️ buff.ly/gJR1hmO
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One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
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it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
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BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
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Unemployment in the UK is now at 5%, its highest level since lockdown. At the same time wage growth is falling.
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Unemployment in the UK is now at 5%, its highest level since lockdown. At the same time wage growth is falling.
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PFI and similar private finance plans are like the NHS is being fleeced by Loan Sharks.
The UK has it's own bank why does it need private finance?
Because it makes people rich off the backs of our health service, nobody should make a profit from the NHS.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/emai...
The UK has it's own bank why does it need private finance?
Because it makes people rich off the backs of our health service, nobody should make a profit from the NHS.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/emai...
Email your MP - give them the facts about new NHS private finance
weownit.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
PFI and similar private finance plans are like the NHS is being fleeced by Loan Sharks.
The UK has it's own bank why does it need private finance?
Because it makes people rich off the backs of our health service, nobody should make a profit from the NHS.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/emai...
The UK has it's own bank why does it need private finance?
Because it makes people rich off the backs of our health service, nobody should make a profit from the NHS.
weownit.org.uk/act-now/emai...
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The world must not look away from the genocide in Sudan.
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The world must not look away from the genocide in Sudan.
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Bringing you the good news you won't hear from BBC Scotland and the rest of the unionist media...It's the good people of TalkingUpScotland👍🏴👍
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Good news you won’t hear – 72 000 Scottish workers receive pay boost thanks to Scottish Government
Professor John Robertson OBA Not being reported by BBC Scotland or BBC Scotland Business, despite being announced 8 hours ago on the Scottish Government’s news website, on automatic Google al…
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November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Bringing you the good news you won't hear from BBC Scotland and the rest of the unionist media...It's the good people of TalkingUpScotland👍🏴👍
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Opinion: BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/opinion-bbc-trump-row-pro-israel-bias-over-gaza-real-scandal
Opinion: BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal
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<p>As the BBC’s director general and head of news <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mx28vlp4wo" target="_blank">resign</a> amid an uproar over a misleadingly edited speech by <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us" target="_blank">US</a> President Donald Trump, the narrative seems neat: an error, consequences, accountability. </p>
<p>But this latest scandal was prompted by the wrong controversy.</p>
<p>While headlines continue to focus on a single editing mistake, the real crisis at the heart of <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">Britain</a>’s public broadcaster runs far deeper, most notably in its failure to report <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/topics/israel-genocide-gaza" target="_blank">Israel’s war on Gaza</a> with honesty or courage.</p>
<p>And the irony is brutal: the BBC has been shaken by one of the smallest of its sins, while the greater one - its distortion of <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a> reality - goes unpunished.</p>
<h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-trump-row-gaza-genocide-whitewashing-israel-bias">BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal</a></h3>
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November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Opinion: BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/opinion-bbc-trump-row-pro-israel-bias-over-gaza-real-scandal
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Went on LBC News earlier to discuss the BBC shambles.
I said the BBC has kowtowed to Trump in the US and conservative outlets here - both of which want the Beeb dead.
Two of the most senior people quit over a 10-second clip using Trump’s exact words, albeit put closer together than he’d like.
I said the BBC has kowtowed to Trump in the US and conservative outlets here - both of which want the Beeb dead.
Two of the most senior people quit over a 10-second clip using Trump’s exact words, albeit put closer together than he’d like.
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Went on LBC News earlier to discuss the BBC shambles.
I said the BBC has kowtowed to Trump in the US and conservative outlets here - both of which want the Beeb dead.
Two of the most senior people quit over a 10-second clip using Trump’s exact words, albeit put closer together than he’d like.
I said the BBC has kowtowed to Trump in the US and conservative outlets here - both of which want the Beeb dead.
Two of the most senior people quit over a 10-second clip using Trump’s exact words, albeit put closer together than he’d like.
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The left-wing bias claim is nuts – Davie, a former Tory candidate, had overseen the BBC drawing up plans to win over voters of Reform UK, as my Byline colleague @adambienkov.bsky.social reported in June. BBC board member Robbie Gibb helped set up GB News - which is now cheering the Beeb's turmoil.
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The left-wing bias claim is nuts – Davie, a former Tory candidate, had overseen the BBC drawing up plans to win over voters of Reform UK, as my Byline colleague @adambienkov.bsky.social reported in June. BBC board member Robbie Gibb helped set up GB News - which is now cheering the Beeb's turmoil.
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As a graduate student from Gaza studying in Wyoming, I live in two dimensions: one where life moves peacefully forward, and another where everything I love is collapsing. I live in both worlds at once, holding grief and strength in the same breath. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-...
How it feels to live as an academic in exile while Gaza burns
As a graduate student from Gaza studying in Wyoming, I live in two dimensions: one where life moves peacefully forward, and another where everything I love is collapsing. I live in both worlds at once,...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
As a graduate student from Gaza studying in Wyoming, I live in two dimensions: one where life moves peacefully forward, and another where everything I love is collapsing. I live in both worlds at once, holding grief and strength in the same breath. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-...
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Tory donor Anthony Bamford’s company donates £200,000 to Reform UK on.ft.com/3WNoNKx
Tory donor Anthony Bamford’s company donates £200,000 to Reform UK
JCB to contribute equal amount to Conservative party
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November 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Tory donor Anthony Bamford’s company donates £200,000 to Reform UK on.ft.com/3WNoNKx
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70 W Europe named storms in 10 years
Most in a season: 12 in 2023/24
Least in a season: 2 in 2022/23
Highest gust speed: 122mph Storm Eunice, 2022, Isle of Wight
Lowest mean sea level pressure 941.9 hPa: Storm Éowyn, 2025, Isle of Tiree, Inner Hebrides
Highest rainfall: 266.8 mm, Storm Desmond, 2015
Most in a season: 12 in 2023/24
Least in a season: 2 in 2022/23
Highest gust speed: 122mph Storm Eunice, 2022, Isle of Wight
Lowest mean sea level pressure 941.9 hPa: Storm Éowyn, 2025, Isle of Tiree, Inner Hebrides
Highest rainfall: 266.8 mm, Storm Desmond, 2015
📰 Today marks 10 years since the @metoffice.gov.uk named the first #storm, Storm Abigail.
Since then, there has been a total of 70 named storms, like #StormDesmond, #StormChristoph and #StormHenk.
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Since then, there has been a total of 70 named storms, like #StormDesmond, #StormChristoph and #StormHenk.
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10 years since Storm Abigail: a decade of named storms
Today marks 10 years since the Met Office named its first storm, Storm Abigail, launching a public-facing initiative that has since become a cornerstone of weather communication in the UK.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
70 W Europe named storms in 10 years
Most in a season: 12 in 2023/24
Least in a season: 2 in 2022/23
Highest gust speed: 122mph Storm Eunice, 2022, Isle of Wight
Lowest mean sea level pressure 941.9 hPa: Storm Éowyn, 2025, Isle of Tiree, Inner Hebrides
Highest rainfall: 266.8 mm, Storm Desmond, 2015
Most in a season: 12 in 2023/24
Least in a season: 2 in 2022/23
Highest gust speed: 122mph Storm Eunice, 2022, Isle of Wight
Lowest mean sea level pressure 941.9 hPa: Storm Éowyn, 2025, Isle of Tiree, Inner Hebrides
Highest rainfall: 266.8 mm, Storm Desmond, 2015
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BTW, they are standing in front of a remnant of the 1964 New York World's Fair, a moment of great pride in New York City's history.
November 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
BTW, they are standing in front of a remnant of the 1964 New York World's Fair, a moment of great pride in New York City's history.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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All 31 far-right Moms for Liberty terrorists lost their 2025 election bids.
Great news for what remains of our democracy.
Great news for what remains of our democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
All 31 far-right Moms for Liberty terrorists lost their 2025 election bids.
Great news for what remains of our democracy.
Great news for what remains of our democracy.
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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The way Palestine Action protesters have been detained for long periods on remand awaiting trial - not convicted of the offences they're accused of - for acts of nonviolent disruption is an absolute scandal.
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The way Palestine Action protesters have been detained for long periods on remand awaiting trial - not convicted of the offences they're accused of - for acts of nonviolent disruption is an absolute scandal.
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No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
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Every time I go to HM in London, I think the conference is *perfect*. 10/10 💯 💥
And always when I return the next year, it is even better!!
Huge thank you to the organisers @histmat.bsky.social 🙏❤️
And always when I return the next year, it is even better!!
Huge thank you to the organisers @histmat.bsky.social 🙏❤️
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Every time I go to HM in London, I think the conference is *perfect*. 10/10 💯 💥
And always when I return the next year, it is even better!!
Huge thank you to the organisers @histmat.bsky.social 🙏❤️
And always when I return the next year, it is even better!!
Huge thank you to the organisers @histmat.bsky.social 🙏❤️