I am coining the term 'Loachian Futurism' for this kind of architecture. Residential developments that look like the backdrop to a bleak Ken Loach directed drama about city living in the near future.

Civilians in #Gaza are being starved and killed, and we are prevented from helping them.
 
This is Gaza today, even after 7 months of horrors.

💼 Birmingham City Council has received an application to extend the opening hours of Burger and Sauce to 1am / 2am
Please contact [email protected] to send your comments (referencing application number 180617)

Details here:
licensing.birmingham.gov.uk/registers/inde…

I'm glad Martin Mullaney successfully campaigned to prevent the widening of the pavement by removing a few parking bays ~15m away from here on the basis the businesses need them as loading bays.

Wilfred Frost: The PM will meet Vice Chancellors to discuss how to tackle rising anti-semitism on campuses

Gillian Keegan: There are some groups encouraging this

WF: Which groups

GK: There's all kinds of rumors around different groups.. all I've heard is reports from the press

I've always thought the Green Heart looked like a lovely place to camp. ✊️

University of Birmingham Encampment Coalition for Palestine has launched!

As the situation in Gaza escalates, so too does the global student movement towards establishing lasting peace and liberating Palestine ✊️🇵🇸

Latest data shows West Mids is region making most trips by private vehicle and least by active travel (walking cycling) by some margin. (source: gov.uk/government/sta… )

Natalie Elphicke? NATALIE ELPHICKE?!?!She’s welcome in Labour now is she? Yeah damn straight the party’s changed, Keir. Who gets to be cheerfully welcomed in next while Diane Abbott remains suspended? Iain Duncan Smith? Jacob Rees Mogg? Fucking Skeletor?

'MUM!! Kings Heath is on that GB News off the telly!'
birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

These scenes of police violence, like the ones in the US, show no obvious training or tactics. It's just straight-up brawling, hitting things & smashing stuff to no obvious purpose beyond violence for its own sake. They look like football ultras.

Calling all academics who have taken on a new admin role! If you're going to be Head of something, Director of something or Academic lead for, then this webinar is for you.

Jo VanEvery, PhD #migrant and I will help you 'Start as you mean to go on' academicwritingstudio.co.uk/start-as-you-m…

I've already fed this back, but will do so again. My artist's impression of several roads in final plan, which maybe highlights a flaw...
You can see existing filter in centre with numerous extra retrofitted bollards as many people were driving around it on the grass.. 😬

Of course she didn't say the words ascribed to her. She said nothing of the sort. An innocent evening helping a friend has 'blown her world apart'. A shameful, awful incident. I hope all involved hang their heads - but fear they won't. Full story birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…

MUST READ: A doorbell video showing a purported Labour member door-knocking in the local elections in #Dudley went viral this week. It was shared by Akhmed Yakoob on his socials, and blew up. It alleged the person in the video said racist terms. THREAD /1