Hillsidepaul
@hillsidepaul.bsky.social
Housing consultant, socialist, beer drinker, Ebbw Vale Rugby, cyclist & chicken keeper.
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Dumbshit Treasury brain stuff this: India and Denmark etc just said 'we would like to electrify our rail network, we will set up an arm of government to steadily do it all'. Their teams finish one project then go straight to next. In the UK we do it piecemeal with no future work guarantee, costs ££.
Indian Railways will be fully electrified next year (it’s at ~99% currently)
UK is at 38% with tentatively another 12-13% new electrification committed
Indian Railways is building a 7000km high speed rail network by 2047
We can’t even get ours all the way from central London to central Birmingham
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UK is at 38% with tentatively another 12-13% new electrification committed
Indian Railways is building a 7000km high speed rail network by 2047
We can’t even get ours all the way from central London to central Birmingham
😫
February 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Dumbshit Treasury brain stuff this: India and Denmark etc just said 'we would like to electrify our rail network, we will set up an arm of government to steadily do it all'. Their teams finish one project then go straight to next. In the UK we do it piecemeal with no future work guarantee, costs ££.
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Fourteen schools in Bristol voted on how to spend £5m.
The options were:
1) Spread cash based on the number of pupils each school has.
2) Maximise money for disadvantaged children.
The only three schools to vote against option two were faith schools.
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
The options were:
1) Spread cash based on the number of pupils each school has.
2) Maximise money for disadvantaged children.
The only three schools to vote against option two were faith schools.
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Christian schools against support for disadvantaged children
They were outvoted so an extra £5 million will go towards children who need support the most
www.bristolpost.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Fourteen schools in Bristol voted on how to spend £5m.
The options were:
1) Spread cash based on the number of pupils each school has.
2) Maximise money for disadvantaged children.
The only three schools to vote against option two were faith schools.
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
The options were:
1) Spread cash based on the number of pupils each school has.
2) Maximise money for disadvantaged children.
The only three schools to vote against option two were faith schools.
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
@peterwalt7.bsky.social
Hello Peter, long time no see. I hope things are good for you.
Hello Peter, long time no see. I hope things are good for you.
November 19, 2024 at 9:32 AM
@peterwalt7.bsky.social
Hello Peter, long time no see. I hope things are good for you.
Hello Peter, long time no see. I hope things are good for you.
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Does Labour have the constitutional radicalism needed to deliver English devolution? With @janicemorphet.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution
The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making Englis...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Does Labour have the constitutional radicalism needed to deliver English devolution? With @janicemorphet.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The fox continues to dispute my right to be in his garden.
September 18, 2024 at 6:28 PM
The fox continues to dispute my right to be in his garden.
Life's not always a struggle (zoom in to the bench).
September 16, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Life's not always a struggle (zoom in to the bench).
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Any chance we could just let Vienna run our housing policy?https://www.ft.com/content/79726eaf-e4dd-4432-8254-a69fdc6af6e2
Vienna’s co-housing model offers a key to keeping families in the city
As surging rents in world capitals diminish social diversity, projects such as Austria’s Gleis 21 offer one way to ease the crisis
www.ft.com
January 13, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Any chance we could just let Vienna run our housing policy?https://www.ft.com/content/79726eaf-e4dd-4432-8254-a69fdc6af6e2
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'A 100% real-terms increase in the unaffordability of perhaps the single most important good in modern western society has generally been treated as a young person’s issue with politicians paying only lip service to solutions'
on.ft.com/3S0EUld
on.ft.com/3S0EUld
The housing crisis is still being underplayed
Young adults are being robbed of the milestones that marked the lives of previous generations
on.ft.com
January 13, 2024 at 8:48 AM
'A 100% real-terms increase in the unaffordability of perhaps the single most important good in modern western society has generally been treated as a young person’s issue with politicians paying only lip service to solutions'
on.ft.com/3S0EUld
on.ft.com/3S0EUld
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Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth by-elections: What to expect from Thursday's polls
Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth by-elections: What to expect from Thursday's polls
Tories face challenge from Labour in Tamworth and a three-way scrap with Lib Dems in Mid Bedfordshire.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth by-elections: What to expect from Thursday's polls
Well, I'm here now. Thanks to @municipaldreams.bsky.social for the invite. Wanting to gradually move away from the cesspit that X has became.
September 27, 2023 at 4:16 PM
Well, I'm here now. Thanks to @municipaldreams.bsky.social for the invite. Wanting to gradually move away from the cesspit that X has became.