New metaphors are needed in housing. People have been saying this since 2010 but a perfect storm is a rare conjunction of natural phenomena. With the exception of inflation triggered by Covid, what's happened in last 14 years is result of deliberate policy choices www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How ‘perfect storm’ blew away planned social homes England needs

Housebuilders say they have thousands of social homes ready to be built but no customers to buy them.

👀 We didn’t need the Darzi report to prompt calls for alcohol minimum unit pricing [MUP] NICE recommended it in 2010 www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ph24amp.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Signing and Q&A with Colleen Doran. One day only at Impact Comics, Canberra, Australia. www.facebook.com/eve...

Blaming the Chief of Staff for a lack of political edge seems worryingly lacking in insight … “Morgan McSweeney as Ms Gray’s replacement and the arrival of James Lyons, a former political journalist … is likely to give the operation a sharper political edge.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Chris Mason: Why it was always likely Sue Gray would go

Those working alongside the ex-chief of staff were flipping angry, the BBC's political editor writes.

Q. Anything asked by a Mail journalist A. “Fuck off, I won’t talk to you. Go away.” * when a MailOnline reporter doorstepped Lineker to ask about the rumours, the former England striker said: “Fuck off, I won’t talk to you. Go away.”* www.theguardian.com/football/202...

‘It’s my final show – before the break’: Gary Lineker jokes amid departure rumours

Match of the Day presenter made light of speculation that his time on flagship football show is ending

Or, hear me out, we could stop pouring money and energy into the insatiable void – hoping that it will, somehow, magically and despite all evidence to the contrary, solve everything – and instead invest in real human beings doing actual science.

And this morning the Shed is a Tarot card, depicting a shed-shaped tower against a background of tumbled figures...

The Labour Party was founded on collective action + opposition to strike breaking, scabs and profiteering Wes Streeting wants the parasitic private sector to get more and more #NHSwww.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wes Streeting tells GPs work-to-rule 'only punishes patients'

The health secretary outlined measures on cutting

Tory loophole lets ministers not declare value of work-related freebies Ex Foreign Sec Rohypnol™️ Jimmy Cleverly at Wimbledon Men’s Final (OK because foreigners were playing?) Declared no relative with him Has his wife been switching their drinks? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Photos show Cleverly's wife was at freebie despite record saying she wasn't

James Cleverly watched the Wimbledon men's final with his wife Susannah last year - but the official declaration of the freebie states she wasn't there, The Mirror discovered

Yes. Get a Blue Yeti microphone. They’re not too pricy and they do a lovely job. Download Audacity (it’s free) and then find a small, cluttered (soft things especially absorb sound and prevent echos) place to record. Airing cupboards, large closets, small box rooms/home offices all work.