This is awful news. One of the original legal bloggers and one of the very best. nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/04/gile...

The university model is built upon and maintained by a cohort of people who have never known financial hardship, housing issues, or had their basic needs denied. They may still have problems, we all do, but their ability to navigate and thrive is significantly higher. Their safety net is secure.

I would imagine this culture is a survival tactic, nodding yes and #passive obedience-based performance. Been at #events where staff look almost cloned, with preference to network between each other or those with #status and #power. This #risks a blinkered perspective! #challenge #risk #unfetter

Caring City The Just Space Alternative Plan for a caring city has been created by many Londoners working in small groups and larger discussions. There is a printed version and a PDF version which you can downl…

Now download the Plan JustSpace.org.uk/caringCity

A black-and-white photo shows Dr. Leila Denmark (center), an elderly woman with glasses, seated and smiling while looking at a baby who is laughing and facing her. Another younger woman is also seated to the right, laughing and placing her hand near the baby's midsection. The scene suggests a warm, inter-generational interaction, possibly in a clinical or home setting. Dr. Denmark was a pioneering pediatrician, known as the world's oldest practicing pediatrician upon her retirement at age 103.

Dr. Leila Denmark co-developed the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine in 1932.

She was the world's oldest practicing pediatrician until she retired at age 103 (practicing for 73 years). She died a supercentenarian #OTD in 2012 at the age of 114 years and 60 days.

#WomenInSTEM

Manchester, 1960s, photo by Shirley Baker (1932-2014).

Given that house building completions in England in 2025 fell by 8%, a 3rd successive fall according to MHCLG, it's worth noting that site viability & affordability were not only the biggest house building issues last year, but they will get worse this year. (1/n)
#ukconstruction #ukhousing

The book will be open access and out in late May. press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...

And thanks to our excellent facilitator @johnhitchin.bsky.social & all the wonderful organisations in the room: @locality.org.uk @powertochange.org.uk @theyoungfdn.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social @peopleshealthtrust.bsky.social @wearenewlocal.bsky.social @localtrust.org.uk @hopenothate.org.uk 🧵3/4

Join us for the launch at LSE of “Doing Open Social Science: A Guide for Researchers” by Patrick Dunleavy and Timothy Monteath, taking place as part of the CIVICA Open Science Conference… a one-day event in person & online for researchers. Book a place: lnkd.in/dRhu2K8Q

Would love to join in person for this, but unfortunately am on an away day for Local Trust whole team and it's a mandatory day. Gutted.

Launching the Early Career Researchers (ECRs) Awards 🚀

ECRs drive innovation across UCL & we're inviting applications across five categories.

🔗 Apply by 01 May: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/ucl-bartlett-fa...

Justice for unsafe homes: LCN responds to consultation on disrepair The Law Centres Network recently submitted evidence to the joint call for evidence from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Ministry of Justice on housing disrepair claims and the role of claims management companies.

Everyone deserves to live in a decent home. Yet poor housing conditions are all too common.

The current regulation system for housing disrepair is not working effectively.

Learn what’s needed to protect dignity, health and justice for all. 👇

Cover of a booklet - title at the top is Home Away From Home - the condensation trails of two airplanes weave between the title with images of airplanes on either side. Subtitle beneath this is Women’s Journeys From Mirpur to Birmingham. Below, a group photograph of a family of six - two adults and four minors. The youngest two sat on the lap or close to the adults. A scenic backdrop with a minaret in the right background.

#BritishAsianHistory Home Away From Home looks at women's journeys from Mirpur, Pakistan to Birmingham. Interviews tell the stories of the women making new lives in the city. Women’s Lives in the Archives: tinyurl.com/JourneysFrom... Ref: MS 4760/35 #LibraryofBham #raqsartstudio

Aah, Chopin, the age-old lullaby for cultured felines.

😸💤

#cat #chopin #piano #concerto

Love the Justice for Gingers t-shirt! 🙂

Test extract from Medical Officer of Health Report: The general health of the people has been well maintained. Food, though dearer, is much more plentiful, and with the provision of so many new Council houses, we can at last look forward in the not-too-distant future to the time when the bulk of our housing difficulties – overcrowding, dampness and general disrepair, etc. – cease to be a major problem.

In 1952, West Hartlepool Borough Council built 296 new houses. Its Medical Officer of Health looked to the future with confidence ...

465 student flats and 26 social rented homes set to be approved off Old Kent Road Plans to build nearly 500 student flats and 26 social rented homes near Old Kent Road are set to be

southwarknews.co.uk/area/bermond... #OldKentRoad #OverlookingBurgessPark #Southwark #Elephant

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202... #studentflatsempty #studentflatsdevelopers #costoflivingcrisis #studentdebt #ypjobscrisis #fallinternationalstudentnumbers

🥺🤬#Stigma and #discrimination rife in 2026

Probably went to find a warm spot or a place to play. Love the curious and alert stance of standing up on the back legs😍

Need a smile? Here’s one of our barn cats yesterday reacting to seeing two feet of snow for the first time in her life. Enjoy! 🐈 ❄️

#cats #barncat #snow

Douglas House five-storey tenement block and arched entrance

Douglas House five-storey tenement block courtyard view

Douglas House five-storey tenement block external facade

This is Douglas House on the Marshalsea Estate.

Marshalsea Marshalsea estate in Southwark consists of three blocks on separate sites.

I like the Marshalsea road flats that are not too disimilar in character that were built earlier. And also the Pullens is beautiful. I interviewed a tenant there for a research project once and was amazed by the stairway inside. www.peabodygroup.org.uk/about-us/our...

Four-storey balcony access tenement block in neo-Georgian style in yellow stock brick, red brick quoins

Four-storey balcony access tenement block in neo-Georgian style in yellow stock brick, red brick quoins

Four-storey balcony access tenement block in neo-Georgian style in yellow stock brick, red brick quoins

Oliver Goldsmith Estate, Peckham; a London County Council Estate completed in the early 1930s.

Black-and-white portrait of Dr. Jane C. Wright (1919–2013), pioneering Black surgeon, oncologist, and "mother of chemotherapy," seated at a laboratory workbench in a clinical research setting. She wears a white lab coat over a dark top and gazes directly at the camera with a composed, focused expression. In front of her is a large compound microscope with multiple objective lenses, adjustment knobs, and a stage, positioned prominently in the foreground. Her left hand rests near an open notebook or lab record book on the table, while stacks of papers or slides are visible nearby. The background shows softly blurred lab equipment and shelving, evoking a mid-20th-century medical research environment.

"Mother of Chemotherapy" Dr. Jane Wright died #OTD in 2013.

+ Helped shift cancer treatment from palliative care to modern chemotherapy by establishing methotrexate as a foundational treatment for breast cancer in 1951
+ Only woman co-founder, American Society of Clinical Oncology #WomenInSTEM #BHM

LSE Press books are now available on JSTOR open access LSE Press is delighted to announce a new collaboration with JSTOR, providing access to open access books on the digital library’s widely accessed platform.

LSE Press books are now available on JSTOR open access and many other outlets blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...

Stepped terrace in white rendered concrete

Stepped terrace to rear of green and treed open space

Playground and walkways with stepped terrace housing

🚨New on Substack, the first of three posts charting the innovative architecture and changing forms of Camden's council housing - the Whittington Estate: ‘a form of housing more closely related to the existing urban fabric’ ...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-whitti...

Lansbury event poster with early image of estate and Catholic Church of St Mary and St Joseph

The Lansbury Estate at 75: a study day and guided walk organised by @c20society.bsky.social with a distinguished range of speakers (!) on 16 May 2026. Details and booking here:
secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

Intervention—“‘Mass Deportations = Lower Housing Costs’: When Necropolitics Meets Liberal Economics” - Antipode Online Simone Tulumello (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa) On January 14, 2026, the official Facebook account of The White House published a table with a list of the “Top 20 [US] metro a...

Intervention—“‘Mass Deportations = Lower Housing Costs’: When Necropolitics Meets Liberal Economics” by @simtulum.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2026/02/02/n...