@richardblyth.bsky.social
Chartered town planner and trainee theologian
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zero #concrete, low maintenance
#rammedearth building on stone /rubble foundation
1836, Weilburg, Germany by Wilhelm J. Wimpf
Manual from 1837: books.google.de/books?id=rzW...
Picture: Oliver Abels (SBT) CC-BY2.5
Still inhabited.
#rammedearth building on stone /rubble foundation
1836, Weilburg, Germany by Wilhelm J. Wimpf
Manual from 1837: books.google.de/books?id=rzW...
Picture: Oliver Abels (SBT) CC-BY2.5
Still inhabited.
October 12, 2024 at 5:02 PM
zero #concrete, low maintenance
#rammedearth building on stone /rubble foundation
1836, Weilburg, Germany by Wilhelm J. Wimpf
Manual from 1837: books.google.de/books?id=rzW...
Picture: Oliver Abels (SBT) CC-BY2.5
Still inhabited.
#rammedearth building on stone /rubble foundation
1836, Weilburg, Germany by Wilhelm J. Wimpf
Manual from 1837: books.google.de/books?id=rzW...
Picture: Oliver Abels (SBT) CC-BY2.5
Still inhabited.
Bye bye. It was great travelling all over Europe with you. Enjoy your new life in a drawer.
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Bye bye. It was great travelling all over Europe with you. Enjoy your new life in a drawer.
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NEW: £250m+ has been taken as profit over 3yrs, by private companies running social care services in 3 English regions. By:
⛴️ Private equity firms
🏝️ Orgs based in tax havens
Read our new #RORE report (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
⛴️ Private equity firms
🏝️ Orgs based in tax havens
Read our new #RORE report (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Private care providers in three English regions make £250m in three years
More than third of profits analysed went to firms owned by private equity or based in tax havens, research finds
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
NEW: £250m+ has been taken as profit over 3yrs, by private companies running social care services in 3 English regions. By:
⛴️ Private equity firms
🏝️ Orgs based in tax havens
Read our new #RORE report (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
⛴️ Private equity firms
🏝️ Orgs based in tax havens
Read our new #RORE report (Reclaiming Our Regional Economies) in today's @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Meloni's party is organising a car demonstration in Rome (one of the large cities with the highest motorisation rate in Europe) to protest against low emission zones, "useless bike lanes" and 30km/h speed limits
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Meloni's party is organising a car demonstration in Rome (one of the large cities with the highest motorisation rate in Europe) to protest against low emission zones, "useless bike lanes" and 30km/h speed limits
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Just preaching my message of "wanting to do less more often" we all have our reasons.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Separately to my other reply, your post reminded me of a 1970s cartoon that I just managed to find online
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Separately to my other reply, your post reminded me of a 1970s cartoon that I just managed to find online
In Brussels to celebrate 40 years of European Council of Spatial Planners
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
In Brussels to celebrate 40 years of European Council of Spatial Planners
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New York to Chicago by train:
1905: Pennsylvania Railroad, 18 hours
2025: Amtrak, 19.5 hours
1905: Pennsylvania Railroad, 18 hours
2025: Amtrak, 19.5 hours
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New York to Chicago by train:
1905: Pennsylvania Railroad, 18 hours
2025: Amtrak, 19.5 hours
1905: Pennsylvania Railroad, 18 hours
2025: Amtrak, 19.5 hours
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What stations do (and do not) work for services to London is in my forthcoming report - to be released on 17th November crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/cro...
#CrossChannelRail Report Launch - 17 November, 12:30 CET (event in Brussels, and online) - #CrossBorderRail
In the research for my #CrossChannelRail project in spring 2025 I, Jon Worth, aimed to examine the future of high speed trains through the Channel Tunnel. That would encompass all the stations in cont...
crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu
November 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
What stations do (and do not) work for services to London is in my forthcoming report - to be released on 17th November crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/cro...
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English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (IoD25) and Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD25) are published today. This is an update in the series, following on from the 2019 #deprivation indices.
UK Government website:
www.gov.uk/government/s...
UK Government website:
www.gov.uk/government/s...
English indices of deprivation 2025
Statistics on relative deprivation in small areas in England. Further details are provided at the bottom of this page and in the FAQ document.
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (IoD25) and Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD25) are published today. This is an update in the series, following on from the 2019 #deprivation indices.
UK Government website:
www.gov.uk/government/s...
UK Government website:
www.gov.uk/government/s...
@simonmaarfield.bsky.social just seen your profile has Trutnov station on it! I'd recognise that one car train anywhere (even not in Trutnov) ...
October 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
@simonmaarfield.bsky.social just seen your profile has Trutnov station on it! I'd recognise that one car train anywhere (even not in Trutnov) ...
This is brilliant - and original.
Wrote about the dominance of "victims" in our political discourse, which included this fab chart @owenwntr.bsky.social www.economist.com/britain/2025...
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This is brilliant - and original.
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Art-deco flats, Schaerbeek 1929. 4 units on the footprint of the single house each resident might have occupied before WW1. Meaning 4 cookers, 4 gramophones, 4 telephones, etc. From the rentier economy to the consumer society.
October 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Art-deco flats, Schaerbeek 1929. 4 units on the footprint of the single house each resident might have occupied before WW1. Meaning 4 cookers, 4 gramophones, 4 telephones, etc. From the rentier economy to the consumer society.
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Interesting case in Poland: a company lost tender for a construction contract after providing 280 pages of documentation which turned out to be AI generated and full of AI hallucinations (which was picked by the competitor).
My bet is they hoped nobody will bother to read so much paperwork.
My bet is they hoped nobody will bother to read so much paperwork.
Pierwszy taki wyrok w Polsce. Firma straciła kontrakt przez błędne użycie AI
Firma Exdrog, ubiegająca się o kontrakt na utrzymanie dróg w Małopolsce, wykorzystała sztuczną inteligencję do przygotowania wyjaśnień mających przekonać zamawiającego, że zaoferowana przez nią cen...
businessinsider.com.pl
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Interesting case in Poland: a company lost tender for a construction contract after providing 280 pages of documentation which turned out to be AI generated and full of AI hallucinations (which was picked by the competitor).
My bet is they hoped nobody will bother to read so much paperwork.
My bet is they hoped nobody will bother to read so much paperwork.
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Skelmersdale full retreat. Safeguarded site for station to be scrapped in favour of parkway at Pimbo
www.lep.co.uk/news/traffic...
www.lep.co.uk/news/traffic...
New Skelmersdale railway station ‘compromise’ site for town backed by transport chief
A new railway station on the outskirts of Skelmersdale could be a cost-effective “compromise” solution to bringing trains back to the town after a near 70-year absence.
www.lep.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Skelmersdale full retreat. Safeguarded site for station to be scrapped in favour of parkway at Pimbo
www.lep.co.uk/news/traffic...
www.lep.co.uk/news/traffic...
Happy New Time everyone!
October 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Happy New Time everyone!
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Building capacity starts with reframing what the state is for – not just a fixing markets but actively shaping the economy towards clear outcomes.
Join me at 17:30 BST today for as I deliver the Reynolds Lecture at Emmanuel College Cambridge ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/j/8205288804...
Join me at 17:30 BST today for as I deliver the Reynolds Lecture at Emmanuel College Cambridge ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/j/8205288804...
October 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Building capacity starts with reframing what the state is for – not just a fixing markets but actively shaping the economy towards clear outcomes.
Join me at 17:30 BST today for as I deliver the Reynolds Lecture at Emmanuel College Cambridge ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/j/8205288804...
Join me at 17:30 BST today for as I deliver the Reynolds Lecture at Emmanuel College Cambridge ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/j/8205288804...
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Martin Luther, a #Lutheran, says trade should be in a caring community. Selling as dear as you can is just theft.
Would you tolerate $100 hot dogs at church social / VBS? If that seems unkind, then you can see Luther’s ethic.
How can you avoid stealing other people’s property?
#tencommandments
Would you tolerate $100 hot dogs at church social / VBS? If that seems unkind, then you can see Luther’s ethic.
How can you avoid stealing other people’s property?
#tencommandments
October 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Martin Luther, a #Lutheran, says trade should be in a caring community. Selling as dear as you can is just theft.
Would you tolerate $100 hot dogs at church social / VBS? If that seems unkind, then you can see Luther’s ethic.
How can you avoid stealing other people’s property?
#tencommandments
Would you tolerate $100 hot dogs at church social / VBS? If that seems unkind, then you can see Luther’s ethic.
How can you avoid stealing other people’s property?
#tencommandments
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Let’s not
Let’s fall in love with cars again
Investing more into roads will only mean higher economic returns for the UK
on.ft.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Let’s not
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think this by @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social is critical bc the Shinkansen has been understood/sold as a postwar Japanese invention with no blemishes from the past Imperial state, built from conception to operation in >20 years. but turns out it had a longer runway cleared out by the previous regime
TIL in this great Substack article that earliest plans for Shinkansen was as early as 1939, and the Imperial Government was buying up land for Tokaido during WWII. Then-Japanese Government Railways bought ROW land dirt cheap thanks to the US bombings jrurbanenetwork.substack.com/p/shinkansen...
Shinkansen... We also need. 新幹綫~ 我們也要有。
China and Japan operate an ever complex and frequent HSR system. The environment surrounding the births of their systems can be similar and different at the same time.
jrurbanenetwork.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
think this by @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social is critical bc the Shinkansen has been understood/sold as a postwar Japanese invention with no blemishes from the past Imperial state, built from conception to operation in >20 years. but turns out it had a longer runway cleared out by the previous regime
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Northumberland Line latest: Blyth gets a new railway station
Typical - you wait 60 years for a reversal of Beeching cuts, then two come at once
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/transpo...
Typical - you wait 60 years for a reversal of Beeching cuts, then two come at once
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/transpo...
Northumberland Line latest: Blyth gets a new railway station
Typical - you wait 60 years for a reversal of Beeching cuts, then two come at once
northeastbylines.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Northumberland Line latest: Blyth gets a new railway station
Typical - you wait 60 years for a reversal of Beeching cuts, then two come at once
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/transpo...
Typical - you wait 60 years for a reversal of Beeching cuts, then two come at once
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/transpo...
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Rail station car parking: it seems that either Network Rail, or the regulator, has rules against reducing private car parking spaces at rail stations. In Oxford, we have a half-empty car park on prime real estate. We'd like to use it for other things. See below campaign. (1/2)
archive.ph/RKXqW
archive.ph/RKXqW
October 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Rail station car parking: it seems that either Network Rail, or the regulator, has rules against reducing private car parking spaces at rail stations. In Oxford, we have a half-empty car park on prime real estate. We'd like to use it for other things. See below campaign. (1/2)
archive.ph/RKXqW
archive.ph/RKXqW
Last time I went from Leeds to Sheffield it took 50 mins. There were two carriages in rush hour. Packed beyond standing room
Leaders from Sheffield and Leeds are urging government to invest in better rail links between the cities, calling for faster trains, key station upgrades, and stronger backing for economic growth across Yorkshire via the Northern Powerhouse Rail scheme.
www.southyorkshire-ca.gov.uk/news/article...
www.southyorkshire-ca.gov.uk/news/article...
Sheffield and Leeds – Better Connected - South Yorkshire MCA
Political and business leaders from Sheffield and Leeds are travelling to Westminster to make the case for ‘transformational rail investment’ between the two city regions.
www.southyorkshire-ca.gov.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Last time I went from Leeds to Sheffield it took 50 mins. There were two carriages in rush hour. Packed beyond standing room
Signs of Sussex
October 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Signs of Sussex