A building of such exceptional international significance should not depend upon the resources of Glasgow School of Art alone. Its future is a matter of national and international cultural importance.

The Victorian Society@thevicsoc.bsky.social · 6h ago

Read our full statement on the future of the Mackintosh Building in Glasgow here: tinyurl.com/79ch8bvn 🧵 Main Entrance Glasgow School of Art, July 2009 no 2. Photo: Jörg Bittner Unna

The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society has today declared a plan to coordinate and lead the reinstatement of the fire damaged GSA Mackintosh Building. Support has also come from the Scottish Education and Culture Secretary. Full details and sources: duille.com/gsa

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology

The Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building is a masterpiece. We need a full, faithful restoration with zero erosion of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s original design intent. If you agree, please add your name to the petition to help save 'The Mack': you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Fully and Faithfully Restore ‘The Mack’

The Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building is a masterpiece. We need a full, faithful restoration with zero erosion of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s original design intent. If you agree, please add...

you.38degrees.org.uk

The full case study is here historicengland.org.uk/images-books...

MAGA Make Awnings Great Again Grade II* listed country house in Buckinghamshire. Awnings added in 2024

Eek ! what if the World Cup became to football ( Soccer to those in the US) what the World Series is to (American ) football …

James O’Brien@mrjamesob.bsky.social · 6d ago

They’re not messing about. If only US media had managed to be similarly united & determined in the face of Trump’s assaults on them…

@garyseconomics.bsky.social urged us all to educate ourselves on Inequality issues Heres a bit of light reading …

Ingrid Robeyns@ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · last mo.

The Extreme Wealth Line project is a transdisciplinary initiative aiming at the introduction of an extreme wealth line (EWL), just like we have an extreme poverty line. The project has now published its two foundational papers, as LSE-III working papers #171 and #172: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Today, along with 120 other millionaires our letter to the new Prime Minister asks for one thing: tax us, the super rich. As millionaires, we're proud to pay and we're here to stay. 👉 Swipe to see some of the well-known faces who have signed the letter.

Not just Glasgow - Scotland and the UK will be.The GSA dont have the money to properly restore but without political will it wont be done

Apollo@apollo-magazine.com · last wk.

The Glasgow School of Art says that it can’t afford to rebuild the Mackintosh building after two disastrous fires. It’s time for the restoration to be taken out of its hands, writes Douglas Murphy (@entschwindet.bsky.social).

Andy Burnham, "To me, carers should be the best paid people in society, not the worst" "Many people from other countries have been caring for my dad" Andy Burnham praises migrants to the UK who care for our elderly, a stark contrast to Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer

Big new story from @annaisaac.bsky.social. Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother before she made Reform & Tice donations. The even bigger question now is where did Cottrell’s money come from? And this is where I think a very big problem lies.. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK

Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son

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It is difficult and expensive to restore buildings damaged as badly as the Mac but as Macron showed at Notre Dame is that it can be done if there is political will - is there enough for the Mac? : you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Fully and Faithfully Restore ‘The Mack’

The future international credibility of Glasgow and Scotland in the fields of architecture, education and culture will depend on the delivery of an accurate, faithful and honest restoration of Mackint...

you.38degrees.org.uk

We can now see the smoke from the Canadian wildfires in the UK. Meanwhile, the rightwing press are pushing for more drilling in the North Sea, and Badenoch is banning Tory candidates who support net zero. Cool cool bsky.app/profile/meto...

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 2w ago

Have you noticed an opaqueness to the blue sky this morning? Wildfire smoke from North America is drifting south across the UK, meaning the clear skies may not be as blue as you might expect 🌤️

ℹ️ Fiscal devolution EXPLAINED Why is fiscal devolution good for the UK economy? How does the UK compare internationally? How can fiscal devolution increase economic growth? Answers here 👇 www.centreforcities.org/data/fiscal-...

Fiscal devolution explained - Centre for Cities

Everything you need to know about fiscal devolution

centreforcities.org

Farage’s close associate Posh George has written a book called How to Launder Money. Even the late Ronnie Biggs never had the imagination to pen a book entitled “How to Rob Trains”. The stink off Reforn’s funding is overpowering app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/74154/...

Nigel Farage is swimming in crypto—and has never looked closer to drowning

The Reform UK leader’s man-of-the-people act is losing its magic

app.prospectmagazine.co.uk

UK territorial carbon emissions have fallen by over half since 1990 - with most progress since the late 2000s. Net zero is a continuation of that pathway to zero by 2050. www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Overall carbon emissions have increased" in the UK, because of Net Zero, Kemi Badenoch repeatedly tells the BBC, to no pushback. Just completely untrue

Six sixes in an over. SIX SIXES. In 1968. youtu.be/aWA7wYKcPGo

Sir Garry Sobers hitting 6 Sixes in an Over

YouTube video by SweetLemon99

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I have a little essay about the Nolan Odyssey in the Times today. I enjoyed it, but wonder how much you lose when (eg) you lose Nausicaa… and the humour of the original. Hope some of you can access it! www.thetimes.com/article/ad40...

Mary Beard on The Odyssey: It’s great, but where are Homer’s jokes?

Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway are marvellous in Christopher Nolan’s stunning epic for today but he misses the original’s humour — and eroticism

thetimes.com

🔴 BRAVA ‼️ this intrepid woman, shut ice down ✊🏾🇺🇸✊🏻

Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel

Air conditioning has become the latest front in the energy culture war. Depending on who you ask, it is either wasteful excess we must resist or the only sensible response and anyone urging caution is a zealot. A few thoughts in this 🧵

Another chance to read my short piece from yesterday for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk #Migration #CulturalExchange #ancientDNA

Yorkshire Bylines@yorkshirebylines.co.uk · last mo.

Crucible of Britain: ancient migration and the deep roots of mixed-heritage families Yorkshire’s repeated historical intersections of migration and cultural exchange remain, engrained in the DNA of its descendants By John Heywood @handhyorkshire.bsky.social

Devonians were horrified to learn last week of plans for a massive AI data centre near Great Torrington, north Devon. The proposals from company XLinks Ltd would cover 850 acres of farmland. But who owns the land? I decided to investigate. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Plans for massive data centre near Great Torrington in Devon

Xlinks wants to build a Devon data campus but is facing opposition from residents.

bbc.co.uk

That @naomialderman.bsky.social is so fucking brilliant. If you've found yourself falling out the reading habit, she has created a kind of Couch-to-5K of reading open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

let's do a 'couch to 5k' for reading

we're going to work ourselves back to good 'reading fitness' over the next eight weeks. come and join us.

open.substack.com

This is very good

Anthony Painter@anthonypainter.bsky.social · last mo.

Manchesterism - place, pluralism and public good - faces big and urgent strategic choices. These are on technology, international political economy and the future of work. They will need addressing to evade MAGA-ification. New piece. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyp...

It’s unbelievable that it was still in force until today; a disgrace on any civilised country.

Crisis@crisis-uk.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 Breaking news: from today, it's no longer a crime to sleep rough in England and Wales. The Vagrancy Act has finally been repealed. For more than 200 years, this archaic law criminalised people for sleeping rough or begging. But no more.

Why Manchesterism is a politics of land: new blog by me Andy Burnham's 'place first' philosophy opens up questions of land ownership & access - from his support for public ownership & land value tax, to Manchester's history of pioneering the right to roam: righttoroam.substack.com/p/why-manche...

Why Manchesterism is a politics of land

Andy Burnham's 'place first' philosophy opens up questions of land ownership & access

righttoroam.substack.com