Anyone with any connection to #housinglaw #socialhousing #landlordandtenant will be very sad to learn of the death of Giles Peaker
@nearlylegal.co.uk
nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/04/gile...
Oh good grief
GOOD JOB ILLINOIS. Today.
By 2030, power consumption from 'AI data centers' will TRIPLE, in their 'base' scenario
A single server rack in a data centre
-weighs the same as a truck
-Uses as much energy as 65 households
-wildly fluctuates in power consumption
i-Evacuates as much heat into the atmosphere as 30 gas boilers
Rachel Reeves, Chris Mcdonald, Ed Miliband, Keir Starmer. All wearing fluorescent jackets.
Great how your phone gives you memories.
It's two years to the day since Rachel Reeves told me if Labour won the general election they would send the National Audit Office in to investigate the Teesworks saga.
The authority responsible hasn't published audited accounts since then, yet nothing.
Now at my personal blog (non-Substack): theemptycity.com/blog/2026/04...
Once upon a time there was a ruler who made a bad decision. All the courtiers and servants knew it was a bad decision, but they put into effect the bad decision, for the ruler had already made and proclaimed the decision. And when it turned out to be a very bad decision indeed, those courtiers and servants were sacked by the now “furious” ruler.
The decision of a Prime Minister
Only one person decided to appoint Lord Mandelson
The Empty City blog
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-decisi...
The zine also has the fabulous poem ‘The Voices Raised’ which @imcmillan.bsky.social wrote for the Rebellion! exhibition.
Bloody hell, 10 years since Prince died. Which means also 10 years since Victoria Wood died. Not entirely over either of them
This is a poem of loss, taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023)...
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Good morning to you, sir! We seem to be glitch free for now! 🤞🏻
Government apparently more willing to ask people to embrace AI than migrants, for a start, which is just wild.
Many happy returns!
Grade II listing details: Houses. 1900 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the second Earl of Lytton. A block of four houses forming an open court. Whitewashed brick. Machine tile roof with 6 red brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys. 3- and 4-light glazing bar casements, those on gable ends set in corners. Arched through passage in centre of block. Diamond date panel above. Plank doors with simple flat hoods
Grade II lisitng details: Semi-detached pair of houses. 1903 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the Earl of Lytton. M-fronted house. 2 storeys. 2 weatherboarded gable ends, the rest of the house in red brick. Plain tile steeply pitched roofs with a central red brick chimney stack. 3- light glazing bar casements. Tiled eaves.
Old Knebworth, Hertfordshire: houses on Park Lane designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens for his in-law the second Earl of Lytton. Left, Mulberry Cottages (1900) and, right, 188-190 Park Lane (1903).
Good news that Labour pledge to tackle NHS “gaslighting” women. The health chapter in WHO WANTS NORMAL? sets out shocking medical discrimination of well known women who suffered for years with long term health conditions. Doctors ignored or even ridiculed them. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
This lines up with previous research (NAO in particular) that showed a large percentage of Help to Buy users would have bought anyway. Not a natural fan of the Adam Smith institute but its comments on Help to Buy as akin to 'throwing petrol onto a bonfire' remain apt.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is the "cumulative disruption" measure in the crime and policing bill.
As I said last week, the police are primed to see all protest as disruptive. I mean, it's kind of the point of protest.
This really should be a much bigger deal.
Yes is winning on 58%
Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.
Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Nightingale on a branch, which is covered with lichen. It's in a tree, and singing. It has mid-brown wings and back, and a pale smooth chest with a slightly darker and rougher bib. the bright orange beak is wide open.
The first nightingales have returned to Fingringhoe Wick after their epic flight from Africa.
There’s no sound quite like it—come and hear the season’s first songs.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...
“To the dumb question ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”
The irreplaceable Christopher Hitchens, who would have been 77 today, on mortality www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/13/c...
I love these. Loads round here. A real conservation success story!
Long Sunday read 👉👉 open.substack.com/pub/mikegals...
The sound quality on #totp is pretty ropey.
