Graham Marchbank
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"Mr. President, we have a request here asking you to Pardon the Sheringham Bus Shelter."
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"Mr. President, we have a request here asking you to Pardon the Sheringham Bus Shelter."
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Somehow it's already December 5th, which means it is no longer too early for one of the most unexpected Christmas songs there ever was: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pds_...
COCTEAU TWINS - FROSTY THE SNOWMAN
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December 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Somehow it's already December 5th, which means it is no longer too early for one of the most unexpected Christmas songs there ever was: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pds_...
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The on-hold music for Waitrose’s customer helpline is just a swan reading share prices to some brioche.
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The on-hold music for Waitrose’s customer helpline is just a swan reading share prices to some brioche.
It's an elegant shed ... full of commercial tat and clutter.
📰 The baffling listing rejection of Stansted Airport featured in the latest issue of @privateeyenews.bsky.social; "a seminal piece of aviation architeture" and a building that even the late Piloti (C20’s own Gavin Stamp) admired as "an elegant shed".
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It's an elegant shed ... full of commercial tat and clutter.
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Christmas Dinners Around The World.
UK: Sage and onion turkey, sips mulled wine.
Australia: Thymey kangaroo, downs port.
UK: Sage and onion turkey, sips mulled wine.
Australia: Thymey kangaroo, downs port.
December 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Christmas Dinners Around The World.
UK: Sage and onion turkey, sips mulled wine.
Australia: Thymey kangaroo, downs port.
UK: Sage and onion turkey, sips mulled wine.
Australia: Thymey kangaroo, downs port.
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Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rory Gallagher
Ramones
B52s
Shawn Colvin
Blondie
Ramones
B52s
Shawn Colvin
Blondie
Introduce yourself with five acts you’ve seen
Gerry Rafferty
Sonic Youth
kd lang
ELO
Frightened Rabbit
Gerry Rafferty
Sonic Youth
kd lang
ELO
Frightened Rabbit
Introduce yourself with 5 acts you've seen
The Stone Roses
Jason Donovan
Gilbert O Sullivan
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Dr and the Medics
The Stone Roses
Jason Donovan
Gilbert O Sullivan
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Dr and the Medics
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Rory Gallagher
Ramones
B52s
Shawn Colvin
Blondie
Ramones
B52s
Shawn Colvin
Blondie
What a cl***er***k. It's renewables but with centuries of waste management.
So it's now news Hinkley Point C will be really expensive?
FFS, I & others were trying to tell people this over a decade ago, before contracts were signed
But the nuclear-political establishment thought they knew better
They didn't. Not for the first time
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
FFS, I & others were trying to tell people this over a decade ago, before contracts were signed
But the nuclear-political establishment thought they knew better
They didn't. Not for the first time
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
What a cl***er***k. It's renewables but with centuries of waste management.
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For a shot of self-esteem, try standing in front of the specials board at a restaurant & pretending that everyone is craning their necks to look at YOU
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
For a shot of self-esteem, try standing in front of the specials board at a restaurant & pretending that everyone is craning their necks to look at YOU
UoE has form on George Square.
I'm not even going try defend this building, suffice to say its owners spending squillions on new buildings while letting their existing estate deteriorate to the point they need to wrap them in chicken wire to keep the cladding from falling off seems remarkably allegorical
Application submitted for stabilisation of A-listed 40 George Square (1960-1963), formerly David Hume Tower - covering the building in a light gauge stainless steel open mesh system due to the condition of the slate cladding (estimated to have a future lifespan of only 3-5 years): bit.ly/3K7E0Dz
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
UoE has form on George Square.
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Imagine when around 80% of the island of Ireland looked something like this, with lynx, wild boar, wolves, bears, and so much more. We should be a rainforest nation.
A *massive* part of our heritage has been stolen from us. Let's start bringing some of it back, via #Rewilding.
A *massive* part of our heritage has been stolen from us. Let's start bringing some of it back, via #Rewilding.
November 15, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Imagine when around 80% of the island of Ireland looked something like this, with lynx, wild boar, wolves, bears, and so much more. We should be a rainforest nation.
A *massive* part of our heritage has been stolen from us. Let's start bringing some of it back, via #Rewilding.
A *massive* part of our heritage has been stolen from us. Let's start bringing some of it back, via #Rewilding.
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Sheffield Hallam University appeased China Govt to protect its income from Chinese student enrollment.
It shut down research into forced labour and human rights abuses, intimidated academics, suppressed academic papers.
Outrageous. Universities functioning as corporations. Must be investigated.
It shut down research into forced labour and human rights abuses, intimidated academics, suppressed academic papers.
Outrageous. Universities functioning as corporations. Must be investigated.
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Sheffield Hallam University appeased China Govt to protect its income from Chinese student enrollment.
It shut down research into forced labour and human rights abuses, intimidated academics, suppressed academic papers.
Outrageous. Universities functioning as corporations. Must be investigated.
It shut down research into forced labour and human rights abuses, intimidated academics, suppressed academic papers.
Outrageous. Universities functioning as corporations. Must be investigated.
From Waverley Bridge around 5.
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
From Waverley Bridge around 5.
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Sexist headline of the week.
A work by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh has been sold at auction and a Scottish newspaper decided to report this by referring to her as ‘wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’.
A work by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh has been sold at auction and a Scottish newspaper decided to report this by referring to her as ‘wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’.
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Sexist headline of the week.
A work by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh has been sold at auction and a Scottish newspaper decided to report this by referring to her as ‘wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’.
A work by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh has been sold at auction and a Scottish newspaper decided to report this by referring to her as ‘wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’.
Why does #BBCShortbread continually get this agency name wrong? " The Scottish Environmental and Protection Agency" (Sepa).
October 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Why does #BBCShortbread continually get this agency name wrong? " The Scottish Environmental and Protection Agency" (Sepa).
And leave Bobby's nose alone you "good luckers". It's wearing off!
This is a very picturesque city. The sun definitely helped.
October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
And leave Bobby's nose alone you "good luckers". It's wearing off!
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October 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
In non-Bella news I'm doing a talk at the Edinburgh Futures Institute 'Patrick Geddes and the Anarchist Strain of Town Planning' is on 30 October. It's free and open to all - but book your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patrick-ge...
October 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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The Trust are calling an EROSION EMERGENCY — asking the council @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social to re-bank, re-seed and re-turf CALTON HILL between now and the end of the year. @spurtle.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social
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September 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The Trust are calling an EROSION EMERGENCY — asking the council @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social to re-bank, re-seed and re-turf CALTON HILL between now and the end of the year. @spurtle.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @edinreporter.bsky.social
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Proposal to demolish two Edinburgh multi-storey blocks
Two Edinburgh multi-storey council housing blocks are being considered for demolition after costs for a planned refit have increased dramatically, according to city officers. According to a report to be noted by councillors next week,…
Two Edinburgh multi-storey council housing blocks are being considered for demolition after costs for a planned refit have increased dramatically, according to city officers. According to a report to be noted by councillors next week,…
Proposal to demolish two Edinburgh multi-storey blocks
Two Edinburgh multi-storey council housing blocks are being considered for demolition after costs for a planned refit have increased dramatically, according to city officers. According to a report to be noted by councillors next week, refurbishing the Oxcars Court and Inchmickery Court blocks in Muirhouse no longer provides ‘value for money’. Councillors will make a decision on what to do about the two 75-flat blocks at a meeting of the city’s Housing, Homelessness and Fair Work committee in December.
theedinburghreporter.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Proposal to demolish two Edinburgh multi-storey blocks
Two Edinburgh multi-storey council housing blocks are being considered for demolition after costs for a planned refit have increased dramatically, according to city officers. According to a report to be noted by councillors next week,…
Two Edinburgh multi-storey council housing blocks are being considered for demolition after costs for a planned refit have increased dramatically, according to city officers. According to a report to be noted by councillors next week,…
Worth saving those motif tiles methinks but seems unlikely.
Warehouse, offices and garage for Carlsberg Scottish Importers Ltd., 1961. Look closely, the elephant's head is the "C" from the Carlsberg logotype and the C is replicated in smaller tiles too. There are huge elephant statues supporting the brewery gates and they've long been used in their marketing
September 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Worth saving those motif tiles methinks but seems unlikely.
Watership Down a Bit More.
Slightly diminish a book
Warm and Peace
Warm and Peace
Slightly diminish a book
Wuthering Hillocks
Wuthering Hillocks
September 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Watership Down a Bit More.
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This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests?
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
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With lots of competition, is this the biggest financial waste of Brexit?
The figures are eye-watering. I have no knowledge of this, but were European public-procurement procedures still being followed when these went to tender?
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The figures are eye-watering. I have no knowledge of this, but were European public-procurement procedures still being followed when these went to tender?
1
September 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
With lots of competition, is this the biggest financial waste of Brexit?
The figures are eye-watering. I have no knowledge of this, but were European public-procurement procedures still being followed when these went to tender?
1
The figures are eye-watering. I have no knowledge of this, but were European public-procurement procedures still being followed when these went to tender?
1
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If this is how far a London-centric architectural awards competition has fallen, the game's up.
If this is how far a London-centric architectural awards competition has fallen, the game's up.
Riba Stirling Prize: Big Ben tower restoration up for architecture award
The restoration of London's famous Elizabeth Tower is nominated for the prestigious Stirling Prize.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If this is how far a London-centric architectural awards competition has fallen, the game's up.
If this is how far a London-centric architectural awards competition has fallen, the game's up.