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The erasure of the Suffragists - who actually won women the vote, by lawful means - is a powerful reminder to anyone looking for a place in the history books: set up the unhelpful, eye-catching parallel to a popular cause.

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"Friday Morning", 2024 by Kateryna Kosianenko. About 550 (mostly) drones and missiles were sent by russians on Ukraine today (mostly on Kyiv). It was one of the largest attacks that lasted for 12 hours.

Last acceptable form of climate denial. Pretending British summers aren’t warm (and will only get warmer)

Everything Is Planning

Council tax: we all hate it. So why won’t ministers reform it? thetimes.com/article/bdb23d…

Great to speak to the Times this week on how to reform council tax. The "Westminster vs. Hartlepool" comparisons are a red herring - the real problem that has to be overcome is that council tax is *locally* regressive in every part of the country.

A weird paradox of Britain (well, England) is that it is one of the most centralized, unitary states in the world. Local governments have very little power, and those powers can be arbitrarily redefined as the PM sees fit. OTOH, no one can build anything bec 5000 locals object.

actually nuts how far above its weight this community punches culturally

These are two sides of the same coin - England is so Nimby in part because its state is so centralised. If Flitwick's local authority could fund its services by allowing loads more houses to be built instead of increasing council tax, those houses would have been built years ago.

In 1937, London built 80,000 homes. Last year, it built less than half that. To find out why, I looked at two different planning applications for a four-storey block of flats from now and back then. 1937: 3 pages long. 2025: 1,250 pages long.

Great clip showing just how burdensome securing planning permission for a dozen flats has become since the Town and Country Planning Act 1947

New episode of THE ABUNDANCE AGENDA podcast: 💉 The NHS plan and the weird moralising about weight loss jabs 📱 How the new GOV.UK could change the entire British state 🏠 Plus Ant Breach from Centre for Cities on "anti-supply" measures. abundancepod.com/p/jabs-for-the…

The important thing isn't that the Triple Lock is expensive, but that it is much more expensive than anybody expected. Will those who still support the Triple Lock happily say they will do so, even if it turns out to be 3x more expensive than expected all over again?

British summer is no longer cold. Your new build home is probably too hot right now. We retrofit old housing to make it warmer, but what about cooling new homes down in summer? This week’s newsletter The i Paper ft. Ant Breach & Prof Bill McGuire inews.co.uk/news/housing/b…

A new record Russian air attack on Ukraine overnight, says the country's Air Force. Russia launched 741 drones and missiles. The bombardment involved: -728 Shahed-type strike drones and various decoys -7 Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles -6 Kinzhal ballistic missiles Ukrainian