Alastair Parvin

Land Talks #1: Flywheels, Cabins, Brushstrokes & More! · Luma 🗺️ Where Fresh Thinking Meets Britain’s Oldest Bottleneck Land is key to economic growth and equality of opportunity, yet in Britain we’ve done almost nothing…

This is going to be good. Mini talks about The Mother of All Topics. lu.ma/mm4dg8fy?tk=...

Land Talks #1: Flywheels, Cabins, Brushstrokes & More! · Luma 🗺️ Where Fresh Thinking Meets Britain’s Oldest Bottleneck Land is key to economic growth and equality of opportunity, yet in Britain we’ve done almost nothing…

This is going to be good. Mini talks about The Mother of All Topics. lu.ma/mm4dg8fy?tk=...

Why the Post Office paid £600m to stay shackled to the faulty Horizon system Not owning crucial code has meant it has been unable to replace the system that led to a scandal.

Why procurement matters
(this is superb journalism)

Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Frome residents win five-year battle for community-led housing project Mayday Saxonvale scheme is given the go-ahead after an extraordinary meeting of Somerset council executive

Well this is brilliant.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“The individual preference for solitude, scaled up across society and exercised repeatedly over time, is rewiring America’s civic and psychic identity” (The graph below is extraordinary, even accepting a Covid bump. Another systemic challenge, no silver bullet) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...