City of Towers – Christopher Booker
May 4th, 2020
This film has reappeared in time for the 40th anniversary of its second showing on the BBC on 10th May 1980 as indicated by the image below taken from the BBC Genome project.
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World War 1
November 11th, 2018
I cannot begin to comprehend the First World War. I have never understood war at all, beyond the occasional need for two angry men to knock seven bells out of each other to settle a misunderstanding in a pub. I have never ever understood why these differences of opinion have to be extended to encompass entire nations and destroy civilisations. So today when I read this Tweet from Tom Cordell I thought yes, I agree with you and that’s why I’m posting it here.
Fixed Odds Betting Terminals
November 4th, 2018
New Labour, you started this.
Bookmakers taking huge profits and football clubs taking sponsorship from gambling and leaving the NHS to pick up the bill and families to face grief is privatising profit and nationalising consequences.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/04/end-scourge-of-fixed-odds-betting-terminals
Austerity isn’t over
November 1st, 2018
Right to buy – Richard Blyth
October 31st, 2018
Better quality Guardian videos HD – IV
October 3rd, 2017
Firstly read the preceding article to this Part III
You can download the 1280×720 version of the above video with this http://www.any-video-converter.com/download-avc-free.php the 1080p requires more work.
Better quality Guardian videos HD – III
October 2nd, 2017
The Guardian have moved their videos to Youtube. So to watch Anywhere But Westminster at HD you must first go to the Guardian Youtube channel. This is the link below:-
Joe Halewood on the end of social rent
July 17th, 2017
@SpeyeJoe has been writing about social housing for a long time and in vivid terms with figures to back up his assertions. Today is no exception and if you haven’t heard of him now is the time to start.
Affordable housing? Oh no its not! End of social housing too! We need to talk ..
In his latest article he writes about the end of social rents across the country as housing associations abandon rents based on income for an “affordable” model which isn’t.
I’ve added his blog link to my “blog roll” in the right hand column as Joe Halewood.
Council housing 1976 – 2017 – C4 News
July 6th, 2017
In a section about the CIH Conference last week C4 news included a few statistics …
