Never understood the attraction of Dubai. I do now.
07.03.2026 23:47
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Never understood the attraction of Dubai. I do now.
Stormy Seaton Sluice
#Northumberland
Whilst the economic back drop has been bad for the last 18 years, is it also the online age which draws politicians into worrying about how stuff plays out above actual delivery? Which is a self fulfilling downward spiral?
😬 I'm sensing more than a little schadenfreude here!
It kind of felt like safeguarding territory, he'd been knocking back the Kool Aid,in trebles.
Chatting to a guy recently telling me how the £ & $ were absolutely doomed, the end is nigh, they were failing soon, as there was 'Nothing to sustain them,' etc and he was putting all his savings in crypto. It was a bit like talking to a member of a cult.
It's not colour photography weather atm!
When I first worked in housing people could recall back in the 1980s being given several options of council house to move into. These days you could be one of several hundred people applying for one house.
If you look at housing delivery the only time enough houses were built in the UK was during the era of mass council building.
Surely, the fact that this is being spread far and wide online means this would qualify as harassment under the 1997 Protection from Harrassment Act.
Absolutely agree with all of this and the importance of the public realm. I think about these themes a lot at the moment.
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Stockport Council got lots more engagement on its Facebook post on the Mersey Valley Way. Over 200 interactions.
No, it wasn't! 🤣 That was my first thought, that doesn't happen in the Cheshire M&S.
It got a bit 'tasty' in my local M&S this morning as two blokes started squaring up to each other in the cheese ailse and everyone paused shopping to watch 👊🏻. The staff had to put the call out to security.
If you haven't hit send and had that moment of GDPR panic induced nausea you've not lived. I put this issue alone down to one of the reasons poor mental health is so widespread.
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I'm also reflecting that 30 years later I'm increadibly grateful the delayed train I was waiting for this evening was a Northern one.
I used to reflect that Stevenage station on a Sunday evening is the place anyone who thinks it's 'grim up north' should be sent, for eternity.
Undoubtedly. One of the most unequal.
Well, here's the official take from the council's recently published Housing Needs Assessment...
It's filling up with Londoners, apparently: 'Everyone in London is moving to Manchester'
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
Seeing first hand how difficult it was claiming housing benefit made me favour the idea. Anything to make life easier for marginalised people is a good thing, and this will. It might make processing claims quicker too.
That was definitely the opinion of The Northern Echo commentariat, which was much amused.
Was thinking the same. Or spell. Reminds me of one of those emails you write in anger, then delete before you send a sensible one back.
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Some were housed near us, in Cheshire East. Apparently, architects and bright, able people who could contribute amongst them. When our volunteers, all older people, were busy planting spring bulbs on Wilmslow Road two passing 20 something asylum seeker lads came and offered to help them.
One way to capture the 16 year old voter!
Bigger than all the other privatisations put together, if I recall correctly, but the most damaging bit was stopping new build. We were much closer to building enough housing to meet our needs when councils built houses, though even then it wasn't enough.