Richard Berridge 🦋

What’s the latest on the Criterion Capital shit show?

Now I'm part of the 'local news industry' I find so many submissions to government by the 'local news industry' to be weird rent-seeking by struggling corporations. It ain't one bloc.

(Though Reach is right on the BBC being the worst at failing to credit when someone's already done a story.)

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Repugnant

We have never built to reduce homelessness. We have built for profit and have not been fussy about how that profit has been made.

In London, the Faustian pact with overseas investors since the GFC has led to an affordability crisis & Londoners priced out.

And opponents of the RRA wonder why it’s important

Can Sadiq Khan stop Asif Aziz's mass evictions? We went to the billionaire's home to get answers, as a leading homelessness charity cut ties with the landlord and tenants begged the mayor to save their homes.

Breaking:
*Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON
*Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord
*Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation
*Questions over legality of paperwork
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Having romped into third place in Gorton and Denton, Labour is celebrating its success with a word salad | Marina Hyde Got battered at the polls? No problem. Just act like voters want more of what you’re selling – not considerably less, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Perhaps now Labour should find the cojones to be radical, purposeful and rejoin the EU. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Good stuff Jim. Real journalism matters.

The structural realignment toward SFR — and the question of… SFR plays a key role in the UK’s housing market. But it’s role is shifting; and so is the market.

My bit on housing:

What we build, where and for whom is every bit as Important as how many.

Private capital: institutional, private equity et al, must recognise their societal resposibilities. btrnews.co.uk/article/the-...

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The Age of Kleptocracy Geopolitical power, private gain.

It was only ever about the money. But who’s the useful idiot?

Is it Miller’s neo-fascist ideology, clearing the way for Trump’s insatiable kleptocratic urges?

Or the other way round?

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...