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The "Azizification" of London housing Fire brigade inspections, dubious safety certificates, and a landlord telling Sadiq Khan that it's business as usual.

The “Azizification” of the London housing market

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If you have questions about @nionwomen.bsky.social are and what we’re all about, hopefully we’ve answered a few of them here!

🔥🔥🔥wanna buy some pottery🔥🔥🔥 (I spent longer on making this than i care to admit)

Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

Absolute Units returns! We’re here with the most special of guests, Old Crockern, the giant who watches over Dartmoor. Plus @lisaschneidau.bsky.social and Ruth Webb.

Listen as we delve into the fight for wild camping on Dartmoor, right up to the present day.

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How to keep going when the world feels broken — The Europeans This week, we wanted to ask a question that has been in our hearts and on our minds for years: Is it possible to try to make positive change in the world, and still stay healthy and sane? Dutch writer...

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This week we discuss:

- strategies for staying sane whilst trying to make positive change in the world w/ @norispauwen.bsky.social
- a cross border abortion access win
- a bad week for Yanis Varoufakis (feat. Kylie Minogue)

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The UK Home Secretary #shabanamahmood is never shy of a photo opportunity. Here she is posing in a martial Greg Bovino–style coat at a removal centre in #Copenhagen; just a few days later we find her again on the front pages announcing a #visa ban for countries that “abuse our generosity”.
#asylum

Oooooh you want one

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Yarn bowl featuring blue and pink swirling nebula with kitten sitting on rock looking at the shining stars.

Yarn bowl featuring blue and pink swirling nebula with kitten sitting on rock looking at the shining stars. (Right)

Yarn bowl featuring blue and pink swirling nebula with kitten sitting on rock looking at the shining stars. (Left)

Yarn bowl featuring blue and pink swirling nebula with kitten sitting on rock looking at the shining stars. (Detail of kitten)

I look at images of the universe, inspired by the dazzling light that paints our incomprehensibly vast sky & listen to a story of someone who used to work with their kitten right beside them and my job is to put those two things together. I'm just incredibly humbled I get to capture life this way.

DING DING DING I just started ANOTHER podcast, come get your podcast. This one’s about detective fiction and being transgender and it has @miamulder.bsky.social and @absobloodylucy.bsky.social on it, and it’s been so much fun cooking it up

Photo of the ruins of ancient Assur with a ziggurat rising in the distance and low remains of walls in the foreground. It looks like sunset or sunrise with the soft, orange lighting. Photo by Mahmoud Fakhri

How to make perfume in 1230 BCE in the heartland of ancient Assyria.

First, you need to mix cane with cleansed water from the palace well of the city of Aššur (pronounced Ashur).

Second, you need to pour this mixture into a special vessel before adding...

Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

standing stone on the top of a hill at sunset in winter

Episode 50 - Singing beck below Black Hill (60mins)

An hour of water tumbling into a deep rocky pool. The birds are asleep. Nocturnal things hold their silence.

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How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

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It's time for another Tides of History mailbag episode! Reply to this with your questions and I'll answer them - anything we've covered, from prehistory to early modernity to which historical figure of the past several thousand years has the most punchable face

The Listening Post | Video | Al Jazeera A weekly programme that examines and dissects the world’s media, how they operate and the stories they cover.

THREAD: A first for me: I've co-produced an episode of Al Jazeera's The Listening Post, and it airs tomorrow!

Outrage over genocide in Gaza has led to Israel losing the streets & the campuses of the western world.

So, Israel has recently decided to try selling its narrative...to Africans.

We are further into our Land Management series and baby, you know we are talking about wheat, and also what the deal is with all these germanic peoples.

When will Europe get the trains it deserves? — The Europeans If you’ve ever wondered where all the affordable night trains are, or struggled to book tickets for an international journey, or spent hours of your one wild and precious life petitioning for compensa...

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This week, we're chatting with @jonworth.eu about Europe’s train woes, the fight for better #CrossBorderRail, and the new European Rail Passengers’ Union.

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Reform's Handmaid's Tale Vision for British Women... On my LBC show this Saturday, I spoke about some of the Handmaid Tale style policies and rhetoric which has emerged from the Reform party recently.

Wrote a new Substack. Share it with every woman you know. They’re coming for our rights.

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Tuning the Dial We’re lost in music, caught …………… at second slip, low down, by the outstretched hand of ……………….. the US vice president, JD Vance, who was spotted ... …………..….…. working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when …………………. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 was premiered in the …………………..… Forties. South or southwest 5 to 7, occasionally gale ………..………… from Croydon is on the line, who wants to talk to us about ……………………….… why Aviva life insurance is right for you and …………………………………... offers me protection, a lot of love and affection whether I’m right or ………….…….….. left wing but there’s nobody in the centre and the ball gets cleared to ………..…….. ….......….…..... Oscar Wilde, who famously announced ‘I have nothing to declare except …………….…………… .……….….. I can boogie, boogie woogie all night long. Brian Bilston

Happy Radio Day to all those who celebrate.

A pic advertising my Tunbridge Wells show on 1st May. It’s at the Trinity Theatre and starts at 7.30pm.

I’m delighted to be appearing at the Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival on 1st May.

Tickets have just gone on sale and are available here:
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Events Here’s a page dedicated to forthcoming events where I’ll be out and about, reading poems, signing books and generally inflicting myself on an unsuspecting or unreceptive public: 2026 Fe…

And here’s my 2026 festival list so far.

14 Feb: Stage4Beverley
12 Mar: Words on the Water, Keswick
28 Apr: Guernsey Lit Fest
30 Apr: Wrexham Carnival of Words
1 May: Tunbridge Wells Lit Fest
2 May: Dorchester-on-Thames Fest
9 May: Filey Lit Fest
3 Jun: Leek Arts Fest

brianbilston.com/events/

Just going to leave this here

Apologies to chuck in a question rather than a suggestion. Am I missing a key or something on the Renewables Viewer to explain the red/yellow/green lines? I guess the load on transmission lines. Thanks for your work on this I find it really interesting!

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Same! And it's my job, so tricky conversations come up with the tidy brigade. I don't blame them hugely, some people have grown up with a terrible stigma around having an 'untidy' garden.The more gardening for wildlife is spoken about in the mainstream the more they have permission to loosen up!

Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.

Absolute Units returns tomorrow!

We continue reflecting on our origin story while looking specifically at our links to British colonial agriculture. Plus, how do we want to be remembered in another 75 years' time?

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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What the trans logo at the top. Below it says "episode 148, political downtime" Below that a collection of images of hearts, game controllers, cameras, a cartoon shark, a guitar, balls of string and a person knitting.

New Podcast Episode: Political Downtime

In this Episode:

Sex Matters bad Thursday at court and the council of Europe.

The actions of ICE in the US.

A discussion of how we spend our downtime between activism and politics.

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