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ianhunt

@ianhunt@mastodon.green

Former Higher education worker at Goldsmiths | #GPEW | writer on art/sometimes architecture and social housing | reader -- ecology, environment, literary modernism & -wasm, contemporary poetry | mind-wandering | London, UK | he/him

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ianhunt, to UKpolitics
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Comment on the UK General Election 2024 just in from a community garden near me.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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I've always been intrigued by the similarities between these two buildings. On the left is a 1770s tenement on Gallowgate in Glasgow (containing the Heilan Jessie pub), while on the right is Charles Rennie MacKintosh's iconic 1902 Hill House in Helensburgh. Given that MacKintosh lived in Dennistoun until 1892, he would likely have passed the Gallowgate tenement, and I wonder if it acted as an inspiration for him.

ianhunt,
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@thisismyglasgow That's a v interesting post and I bet you are right -- that strong visual connection constitutes one of those many small theories one carries about that eventually make it into

ianhunt, to random
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I have not been able to work on the local elections for in London this time round -- sickened and alas not surprised to read this https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/27/tory-staff-running-network-of-anti-ulez-facebook-groups-riddled-with-racism-and-abuse

Loukas, to random
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This article has some decent factual information in it, but the constant shrill framing that the crisis would 'tear Europe apart' is clearly just aimed at getting clicks from English and American readers who don't understand EU well.

EU cooperation is indeed always very difficult and is constantly hard - that's precisely why EU has structures so that countries don't need to like or trust each other in order to work together, long-term.

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-second-term-presidency-united-states-tear-europe-eu-apart/?mc_cid=0edfd1a70e

ianhunt,
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@Loukas Yes -- another complaint of mine is that standard Anglo-American reporting on any EU elections that produce negotiated alliances produced by PR are regarded as intrinsic problems of management and democracy rather than forms for containing and channeling necessary political antagonisms.

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