Peter
@peterwalt7.bsky.social
I care about social housing and social justice, but there’s more to life…
I’ve been rumbled.
From Private Eye this week
From Private Eye this week
February 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I’ve been rumbled.
From Private Eye this week
From Private Eye this week
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RIP David Lodge. His novels were a huge influence on me, especially Small World and Nice Work. I loved his humor and his sense of weirdness, and the way he crafted smart sympathetic characters with a satirical edge. He also wrote a novel about HG Wells, A Man of Parts.
January 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
RIP David Lodge. His novels were a huge influence on me, especially Small World and Nice Work. I loved his humor and his sense of weirdness, and the way he crafted smart sympathetic characters with a satirical edge. He also wrote a novel about HG Wells, A Man of Parts.
What a great writer. The ideal combination of ideas, challenge, plot and laugh out loud humour. I loved his novels - literary fiction at its unselfconscious, easy going, but acutely rapier-like best.
RIP David Lodge. His novels were a huge influence on me, especially Small World and Nice Work. I loved his humor and his sense of weirdness, and the way he crafted smart sympathetic characters with a satirical edge. He also wrote a novel about HG Wells, A Man of Parts.
January 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
What a great writer. The ideal combination of ideas, challenge, plot and laugh out loud humour. I loved his novels - literary fiction at its unselfconscious, easy going, but acutely rapier-like best.
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Admittedly biased by having a 93yo mum with dementia, and have great admiration for Louise Casey, but we've already had an independent commission to form a consensus. Just make a decision and get on with it
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Ministers plan biggest shake-up of adult social care in England for decades
But final report on reforms would not emerge until 2028, which health leaders say is kicking crisis ‘into the long grass’
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Admittedly biased by having a 93yo mum with dementia, and have great admiration for Louise Casey, but we've already had an independent commission to form a consensus. Just make a decision and get on with it
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Two highlights from the weekend: Robert Icke’s #Oedipus at Wyndhams theatre brilliantly acted adapted and designed. Then Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious at Dulwich Pic Gallery beautiful poignant art from 1939s/40s. Both highly recommended
December 17, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Two highlights from the weekend: Robert Icke’s #Oedipus at Wyndhams theatre brilliantly acted adapted and designed. Then Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious at Dulwich Pic Gallery beautiful poignant art from 1939s/40s. Both highly recommended
I’ve been at #Lord’s today for a lunch (thank you caterers and delightful staff) and looked around the Pavilion. I hadn’t realised they have charming original Lowrys… ‘A Cricket Match’ 1952
December 10, 2024 at 8:03 PM
I’ve been at #Lord’s today for a lunch (thank you caterers and delightful staff) and looked around the Pavilion. I hadn’t realised they have charming original Lowrys… ‘A Cricket Match’ 1952
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159,380: Another new record in numbers of homeless children living in temporary accommodation in England. Up 5% on three months ago and 15% on a year ago
www.gov.uk/government/s...
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Statutory homelessness in England: April to June 2024
www.gov.uk
November 28, 2024 at 10:01 AM
159,380: Another new record in numbers of homeless children living in temporary accommodation in England. Up 5% on three months ago and 15% on a year ago
www.gov.uk/government/s...
www.gov.uk/government/s...
#AustralianPinkFloyd outstanding at #RoyalAlbertHall last night
November 27, 2024 at 10:25 AM
#AustralianPinkFloyd outstanding at #RoyalAlbertHall last night
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Well said John Bothwell from Durham. Well said indeed! 😆
November 25, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Well said John Bothwell from Durham. Well said indeed! 😆
I’m forever in search of jazz stations which don’t send me searching for the nurofen but equally are not so smooth as to be soporific. Let me recommend EasyJazzFM (non profit based in Ottawa) One Jazz - available on Sonos and based in Uk. And ABC Jazz (Melbourne), and JazzFM91 (Toronto).
November 25, 2024 at 10:39 PM
I’m forever in search of jazz stations which don’t send me searching for the nurofen but equally are not so smooth as to be soporific. Let me recommend EasyJazzFM (non profit based in Ottawa) One Jazz - available on Sonos and based in Uk. And ABC Jazz (Melbourne), and JazzFM91 (Toronto).
Terrific David Tennant Macbeth at Harold Pinter Theatre this afternoon despite my idiotic seat selection
November 23, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Terrific David Tennant Macbeth at Harold Pinter Theatre this afternoon despite my idiotic seat selection
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Well they should pull their finger out and change this. Obviously. Unless they think that making people wade through pornography, racism and lies to obtain government communications on X is sensible or proper.
November 20, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Well they should pull their finger out and change this. Obviously. Unless they think that making people wade through pornography, racism and lies to obtain government communications on X is sensible or proper.
@insidehousing.bsky.social or any readers: Can you point me to a recent article I cannot now find on how local councils are introducing new committees or panels to oversee their housing service in response consumer regulation? Thanks
November 20, 2024 at 5:34 PM
@insidehousing.bsky.social or any readers: Can you point me to a recent article I cannot now find on how local councils are introducing new committees or panels to oversee their housing service in response consumer regulation? Thanks
Thank you such excellent and informative posts. Three years earlier Pissarro was in Dulwich, London near where I live, painting lovely landscapes. This is St Stephen’s, Lower Norwood, 1870, then and now
November 20, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Thank you such excellent and informative posts. Three years earlier Pissarro was in Dulwich, London near where I live, painting lovely landscapes. This is St Stephen’s, Lower Norwood, 1870, then and now
Thank you for posting such great paintings 👍 Here is Mornington Crescent – Early Morning 1992-93 by Frank Auerbach 1931 - 2024
November 20, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Thank you for posting such great paintings 👍 Here is Mornington Crescent – Early Morning 1992-93 by Frank Auerbach 1931 - 2024
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The government must reverse this decision and permanently link Local Housing Allowance to what rents cost.
So renters don’t face another winter of impossible choices. ❌ 5/5
So renters don’t face another winter of impossible choices. ❌ 5/5
November 20, 2024 at 10:32 AM
The government must reverse this decision and permanently link Local Housing Allowance to what rents cost.
So renters don’t face another winter of impossible choices. ❌ 5/5
So renters don’t face another winter of impossible choices. ❌ 5/5
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Our latest LHA research LHA shows that if the govt keep LHA frozen, private renters on housing benefits will be £243 per year on avg worse off by April 25, rising to £703 by the end of the Parliament.
It's worse again for Londoners and families with children, £882 & £971 respectively 4/x
It's worse again for Londoners and families with children, £882 & £971 respectively 4/x
November 20, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Our latest LHA research LHA shows that if the govt keep LHA frozen, private renters on housing benefits will be £243 per year on avg worse off by April 25, rising to £703 by the end of the Parliament.
It's worse again for Londoners and families with children, £882 & £971 respectively 4/x
It's worse again for Londoners and families with children, £882 & £971 respectively 4/x