NEW BLOGPOST: "Housing minister says the ‘Cambridge model might serve as a template for establishing other place-specific delivery bodies’" cambridgetownowl.com/2024/09/30/h...#localgov proceedings like I own the place! 🙃
In a letter to the Chairman of Homes England, the Minister for Housing and Planning, Matthew Pennycook MP name-checked the city as being an example of how other parts of England might ‘delive…
All the best for your looming new arrival Alice!
Simon Case announces his departure - all you need to know about appointing the next cabinet secretary with @instituteforgov.bsky.socialwww.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/simo...
Keir Starmer must make sure he doesn't make a rushed mistake in his search for Simon Case's successor.
Unless KB is planning for a monster rebound at the next general election, Labour has up to a decade in office, by which time us older millennials will be in our mid-50s. And if average age of home-buying does not fall and soon, they could find their base whittling away further.
Also in NEW BLOGPOST land, Cambridge has a new indoor skatepark! I went along earlier for their opening day. cambridgetownowl.com/2024/09/29/c... I expect more than a few people will be crossing district/county boundaries to get to this.
Cambridge’s first indoor skate park opened earlier today – I went along to have a look Cambridge hasn’t had anything like this – not in my time anyway. It’s also been …
NEW BLOGPOST: Greater Cambridge Partnership declined my public question about a rail alternative to their project which is a road with signs next to it that say 'buses only'. cambridgetownowl.com/2024/09/29/g...
My question on what assessment the GCP had made of Rail Future’s consultant’s report on Rail Haverhill was declined by the Board. I tabled the PQ following a depressing GCP Assembly mee…
"...journalists are people who write for a living. Twitter is and was a place where thoughts are expressed in writing." Ditto, pretty much, for legal Twitter. And that moment has similarly come and gone.
I wrote about this a few months ago! it's very weird to feel the internet slipping away from your fingers, and realise in the process just how good you had it: youngvulgarian.substack.com/publish/post...
Amid the (mostly) trivia freebiegate stories, the real story of Labour conference was largely missed. The clearest signs yet the govt is going to shift fiscal and political approach and start talking about borrowing to invest. My piece for NS. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
The Chancellor’s shift in position is Labour’s best hope of avoiding political and economic decline.