Dr Matthew Hardy
@drmatthewhardy.bsky.social
Senior lecturer, journal editor, cyclist, recovering architect. The Arsenal. Head = Green, heart = Labour. #StillEuropean #FBPE #NAFO 💙🇺🇦
Crypto = blocked
Also at https://mstdn.social/@drmatthewhardy/
Crypto = blocked
Also at https://mstdn.social/@drmatthewhardy/
Oh wait, climate change induced disasters are really profitable
October 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Oh wait, climate change induced disasters are really profitable
If someone talks to you about biofuels, file them in the bin with the snake-oil salesmen talking about carbon capture and storage.
Like CCS, biofuels are a fantasy🦄 designed to prolong the fossil fuel economy.
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/cro...
Like CCS, biofuels are a fantasy🦄 designed to prolong the fossil fuel economy.
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/cro...
October 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
If someone talks to you about biofuels, file them in the bin with the snake-oil salesmen talking about carbon capture and storage.
Like CCS, biofuels are a fantasy🦄 designed to prolong the fossil fuel economy.
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/cro...
Like CCS, biofuels are a fantasy🦄 designed to prolong the fossil fuel economy.
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/cro...
This course looks amazing!
(Summoning Light: Origami & Islamic Patterns - School of Traditional Arts)
schooloftraditionalarts.org/course/pheno...
(Summoning Light: Origami & Islamic Patterns - School of Traditional Arts)
schooloftraditionalarts.org/course/pheno...
October 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This course looks amazing!
(Summoning Light: Origami & Islamic Patterns - School of Traditional Arts)
schooloftraditionalarts.org/course/pheno...
(Summoning Light: Origami & Islamic Patterns - School of Traditional Arts)
schooloftraditionalarts.org/course/pheno...
People think it's hugely important that the BBC is independent from the governement of the day, but fewer than half think it is currently independent from the government
Our BBC, Our Future www.bbc.co.uk/ourbbcourfut...
Our BBC, Our Future www.bbc.co.uk/ourbbcourfut...
October 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
People think it's hugely important that the BBC is independent from the governement of the day, but fewer than half think it is currently independent from the government
Our BBC, Our Future www.bbc.co.uk/ourbbcourfut...
Our BBC, Our Future www.bbc.co.uk/ourbbcourfut...
Just look at this, Brexit is Farage's weak spot
October 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Just look at this, Brexit is Farage's weak spot
Even Reform voters think Brexit is shite.
We have to make Farage take responsibility for this mess.
We have to make Farage take responsibility for this mess.
October 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Even Reform voters think Brexit is shite.
We have to make Farage take responsibility for this mess.
We have to make Farage take responsibility for this mess.
This is factually true. But so are the Conservatives. And increasingly, Labour.
September 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is factually true. But so are the Conservatives. And increasingly, Labour.
Here it is. Rising immigration, declining crime. QED.
These are the FACTS. You won't hear them from Farage or Trump.
These are the FACTS. You won't hear them from Farage or Trump.
September 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Here it is. Rising immigration, declining crime. QED.
These are the FACTS. You won't hear them from Farage or Trump.
These are the FACTS. You won't hear them from Farage or Trump.
This is the reality we need to face up to in Britain
We have a very low birth rate, so if we don’t take migrants we’ll end up old and poor
(Independent)
We have a very low birth rate, so if we don’t take migrants we’ll end up old and poor
(Independent)
September 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
This is the reality we need to face up to in Britain
We have a very low birth rate, so if we don’t take migrants we’ll end up old and poor
(Independent)
We have a very low birth rate, so if we don’t take migrants we’ll end up old and poor
(Independent)
September 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
September 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In the Telegraph. Also in the Telegraph
September 6, 2025 at 8:17 AM
In the Telegraph. Also in the Telegraph
Network Rail want you to think that their new scheme for London Liverpool Street Station is "heritage-led" - but just look at the extent of demolition. All that red stuff on these drawings.
This destructive scheme will strangle this busy central London station and must be stopped!
This destructive scheme will strangle this busy central London station and must be stopped!
September 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Network Rail want you to think that their new scheme for London Liverpool Street Station is "heritage-led" - but just look at the extent of demolition. All that red stuff on these drawings.
This destructive scheme will strangle this busy central London station and must be stopped!
This destructive scheme will strangle this busy central London station and must be stopped!
Of course she was a Remainer.
August 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Of course she was a Remainer.
Yep - as this shows
August 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Yep - as this shows
Remember by contrast that the Italian fascists banned traditional architecture in 1938, and then built only Modernism. Here's one by Terragni, decorated for the visit of Hitler, and a quote from Mussolini himself on opening a Modernist new town.
Architectural style itself is not political.
Architectural style itself is not political.
August 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Remember by contrast that the Italian fascists banned traditional architecture in 1938, and then built only Modernism. Here's one by Terragni, decorated for the visit of Hitler, and a quote from Mussolini himself on opening a Modernist new town.
Architectural style itself is not political.
Architectural style itself is not political.
We've had a housing crisis ever since Thatcher stopped local authorities building public housing. The private sector has no incentive - of course - to build so much that it lowers prices to affordable levels. It was never ever going to work
August 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
We've had a housing crisis ever since Thatcher stopped local authorities building public housing. The private sector has no incentive - of course - to build so much that it lowers prices to affordable levels. It was never ever going to work
Look at this, and tell me again why the Tories didn't want to investigate Russian influence in the UK?
Whose side were they on?
Whose side were they on?
August 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Look at this, and tell me again why the Tories didn't want to investigate Russian influence in the UK?
Whose side were they on?
Whose side were they on?
How it started. How it's going.
August 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
How it started. How it's going.
You just knew it in your bones.
Reform UK councillors don't even bother to show up to work.
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Reform UK councillors don't even bother to show up to work.
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August 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
You just knew it in your bones.
Reform UK councillors don't even bother to show up to work.
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Reform UK councillors don't even bother to show up to work.
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Other spaces survived better and have been restored.
An amazing story of persistence by local people who refused to let the building be demolished.
An amazing story of persistence by local people who refused to let the building be demolished.
August 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Other spaces survived better and have been restored.
An amazing story of persistence by local people who refused to let the building be demolished.
An amazing story of persistence by local people who refused to let the building be demolished.
The Bradford Odeon... 3rd biggest cinema in Britain when it was built. Left to rot for years. Now a concert venue again.
Left, as built. Right, today, restored to a single volume again after "crude" 1960s conversion. All the plaster detail was lost in the 60s😢
www.bdonline.co.uk/buildings/br...
Left, as built. Right, today, restored to a single volume again after "crude" 1960s conversion. All the plaster detail was lost in the 60s😢
www.bdonline.co.uk/buildings/br...
August 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The Bradford Odeon... 3rd biggest cinema in Britain when it was built. Left to rot for years. Now a concert venue again.
Left, as built. Right, today, restored to a single volume again after "crude" 1960s conversion. All the plaster detail was lost in the 60s😢
www.bdonline.co.uk/buildings/br...
Left, as built. Right, today, restored to a single volume again after "crude" 1960s conversion. All the plaster detail was lost in the 60s😢
www.bdonline.co.uk/buildings/br...
I wrote a bit about the strength of myths in a book chapter published earlier this year
August 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wrote a bit about the strength of myths in a book chapter published earlier this year
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Natasha Lubke, Suzanne D.E. Held, Melanie Massaro,
Rafael Freire (2025) Dance behaviour in cockatoos: Implications for cognitive processes and welfare. PLOS One.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Natasha Lubke, Suzanne D.E. Held, Melanie Massaro,
Rafael Freire (2025) Dance behaviour in cockatoos: Implications for cognitive processes and welfare. PLOS One.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
August 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Natasha Lubke, Suzanne D.E. Held, Melanie Massaro,
Rafael Freire (2025) Dance behaviour in cockatoos: Implications for cognitive processes and welfare. PLOS One.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Natasha Lubke, Suzanne D.E. Held, Melanie Massaro,
Rafael Freire (2025) Dance behaviour in cockatoos: Implications for cognitive processes and welfare. PLOS One.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...