Lee Melin
@leemelin.bsky.social
Town planner currently working in consultancy. Like wandering about looking at stuff. #NFFC
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2021 🧵
Why SupplySupplySupply won’t solve #housing affordability problem
#1 ‘we are doomed to failure if we see it purely as a game of numbers.. lowering the bar to get developers to build tiny dim carbon-intensive socially-isolating unaffordable boxes’ alastairparvin.medium.com/if-the-uk-bu...
Why SupplySupplySupply won’t solve #housing affordability problem
#1 ‘we are doomed to failure if we see it purely as a game of numbers.. lowering the bar to get developers to build tiny dim carbon-intensive socially-isolating unaffordable boxes’ alastairparvin.medium.com/if-the-uk-bu...
If the UK built 1 million homes, what would happen to house prices?
A thought experiment
alastairparvin.medium.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
2021 🧵
Why SupplySupplySupply won’t solve #housing affordability problem
#1 ‘we are doomed to failure if we see it purely as a game of numbers.. lowering the bar to get developers to build tiny dim carbon-intensive socially-isolating unaffordable boxes’ alastairparvin.medium.com/if-the-uk-bu...
Why SupplySupplySupply won’t solve #housing affordability problem
#1 ‘we are doomed to failure if we see it purely as a game of numbers.. lowering the bar to get developers to build tiny dim carbon-intensive socially-isolating unaffordable boxes’ alastairparvin.medium.com/if-the-uk-bu...
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If you're ever upset about the state of US land use policy, just spend 30 seconds reading anything about the UK. Automated NIMBYism!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn
Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If you're ever upset about the state of US land use policy, just spend 30 seconds reading anything about the UK. Automated NIMBYism!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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BY ME at #HouseMagazine at #PoliticsHome
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
Don't blame the bats, Labour – you're not just damaging nature but your own poll rating too
It wasn't meant to be this way. Sixteen months on from winning a massive majority, off the back of a manifesto that promised 'to restore and protec...
www.politicshome.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
BY ME at #HouseMagazine at #PoliticsHome
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill #PiB is a microcosm of where #Labour is getting it wrong...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff
Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff
Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff
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YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
bylinetimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people
...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"
It's £10ph FFS!
Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger
DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
Spread far & wide.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
80% of reform MPs were privately educated vs. 7% of the population as a whole. It can only be a matter of time before Pochin hits out at this egregious over-representation. Any day now…
October 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
80% of reform MPs were privately educated vs. 7% of the population as a whole. It can only be a matter of time before Pochin hits out at this egregious over-representation. Any day now…
The calm before the emotional storm.
October 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The calm before the emotional storm.
What weird chemistry makes a game under the lights feel so exciting?
October 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
What weird chemistry makes a game under the lights feel so exciting?
Day out in Suffolk. Bit of a mixed bag.
October 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Day out in Suffolk. Bit of a mixed bag.
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![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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la IA és un senyor blanc
October 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
la IA és un senyor blanc
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
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This is a fairly extraordinary read on Nathan Gill.
New weekend read is out. Subscribers - free or paid - always welcome.
aqyoung61.substack.com/p/a-mystery-...
aqyoung61.substack.com/p/a-mystery-...
A mystery fire, migrant bunkhouses and the money-loving Mormon
Bribe-taking former MEP's journey from Hull to Moscow
aqyoung61.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is a fairly extraordinary read on Nathan Gill.
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Nathan’s mate Nigel sure did seem to want to brush it all away when questioned by Matt Frei back in 2019.
September 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Nathan’s mate Nigel sure did seem to want to brush it all away when questioned by Matt Frei back in 2019.
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Is it "move to Dubai"?
September 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Is it "move to Dubai"?
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A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous
A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous
Last weekend, it fell to ordinary people to oppose the far right and others. The national toxicity has reached us: a kind of hate I haven’t seen since the 1970s
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous
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Here's a thread about the Conservative councillor who came up with an imaginative way to block a solar farm.
His colleague's further point - about the lack of a strategy to handle multiple applications for solar farms - is not quite so daft. It's called "planning".
His colleague's further point - about the lack of a strategy to handle multiple applications for solar farms - is not quite so daft. It's called "planning".
A solar farm that could have powered “all the households in Witney” has been refused permission by West Oxfordshire District Council. Councillors were concerned about the risk of fire, one drawing parallels to the 1966 Aberfan disaster: “Until someone can guarantee it is safe, I can’t support it.”
September 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Here's a thread about the Conservative councillor who came up with an imaginative way to block a solar farm.
His colleague's further point - about the lack of a strategy to handle multiple applications for solar farms - is not quite so daft. It's called "planning".
His colleague's further point - about the lack of a strategy to handle multiple applications for solar farms - is not quite so daft. It's called "planning".
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September 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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‘You, Boy!
This is actually NOT my house,
It’s my girlfriend’s.
I misspoke.’
This is actually NOT my house,
It’s my girlfriend’s.
I misspoke.’
September 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
‘You, Boy!
This is actually NOT my house,
It’s my girlfriend’s.
I misspoke.’
This is actually NOT my house,
It’s my girlfriend’s.
I misspoke.’
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Lucy Connolly was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and her tweet was part of the tinder that lit violence, intimidation, looting, and thuggery across England last year.
The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement.
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement.
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy
The right is desperately seeking to make a martyr out of Lucy Connolly in order to distract from the real victims of the hate she helped to spread, argues Otto English
bylinetimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Lucy Connolly was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and her tweet was part of the tinder that lit violence, intimidation, looting, and thuggery across England last year.
The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement.
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement.
bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Utter drivel from snivelling Chris Mason. No mention they platformed a convicted racist, a loony conspiracy doctor & a bunch of failed Tory MPs.Poll after poll consistently shows most Briton’s hate Farage and his band of thugs.Time @uklabour.bsky.social sorted BBC bias.
Chris Mason: Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before
The conference feels like that of a big party - but retains the insurgency vibe that the party is seeking to channel.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Utter drivel from snivelling Chris Mason. No mention they platformed a convicted racist, a loony conspiracy doctor & a bunch of failed Tory MPs.Poll after poll consistently shows most Briton’s hate Farage and his band of thugs.Time @uklabour.bsky.social sorted BBC bias.
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Reform is a hot mess of race-baiters, grifters, political rejects, climate science deniers and very rich, very selfish dickheads.
But a dull-witted minority think they’re worth a go because they’re “authentic”.
Yes. Authentically ignorant, racist, corrupt, nasty and next-level useless.
But a dull-witted minority think they’re worth a go because they’re “authentic”.
Yes. Authentically ignorant, racist, corrupt, nasty and next-level useless.
September 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reform is a hot mess of race-baiters, grifters, political rejects, climate science deniers and very rich, very selfish dickheads.
But a dull-witted minority think they’re worth a go because they’re “authentic”.
Yes. Authentically ignorant, racist, corrupt, nasty and next-level useless.
But a dull-witted minority think they’re worth a go because they’re “authentic”.
Yes. Authentically ignorant, racist, corrupt, nasty and next-level useless.