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Why are (new) UK houses so expensive but so badly built?

Well the simple answer is that around 70% of the value of the average house is in the land.

So no wonder they seem cheaply & badly made for the price; they are.

What this does suggest is that finding a way to massage down land prices over time would be the best way to slowly unwind the house price crisis along with a programme of both new houses where they are needed & bringing empty homes back into use.

#housing #land
h/t FT for data

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@shufei

Certainly a necessary aspect of dealing with the housing crisis but not (I think) sufficient

in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Taxing housebuilders properly on their banked land would be a start.

They are however also very badly built because there is a massive shortage of labour (skilled or even slightly competent). That means the building companies will take pretty much anyone however dodgy their work is.

There's also another answer to some of it - we in the UK are really good at building portakabin villages for construction work. One or two councils are playing with this for emergency housing now



Welcome to our Fediverse meet-up at Eurofurence 29!

Meet friends, enjoy the music, and don't forget to grab some stickers before they're gone! :3

Or join us online, and use the hashtag #EF29Fedi to post to our live Fediwall.

Music: DJ ALTRO - Furmission VI - Purple Clouds

#Eurofurence #EF29



Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu’s Office to Spread Israeli #Propaganda

Israel’s advertising bureau, which reports to the prime minister’s office, has embarked on a mass advertising and public messaging effort to conceal the hunger crisis. The push includes a high-dollar spending spree on paid advertising, yielding tens of millions for #Google, #YouTube, #X, #Meta, and other tech platforms.

“There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie,” asserted a propaganda video published by the #Israel foreign ministry to Google’s YouTube video platform and viewed more than 6 million times. Much of the video’s reach results from an ad placed during an ongoing and previously unreported $45M advertising campaign initiated between Google and Netanyahu’s office in June.

At least 367 Palestinians, including 131 children, have died as a result of hunger and malnutrition since the war began.

Drop Site News / archive.ph/HAAqI

@palestine #BigTech #hasbara #genocide

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Datenschutz: Rekordstrafen gegen Google & Shein wegen Cookies und Inbox-Werbung

Google muss in Frankreich 325 Millionen, der Onlinehändler Shein 150 Millionen Euro zahlen. Beide haben keine ausreichende Zustimmung für Cookies eingeholt.

heise.de/news/Datenschutz-Reko…

#Cookies #Datenschutz #Google #IT #Netzpolitik #news




In 20 minutes, #Fekete #Molnár #Gárdonyi #Virágh and #Koessler sound in #Budapest worldconcerthall.com/en/schedu… #wch


Oh great, another newcomer asserting that fascism can be abolished through electoral means. As if electoralism changes anything, only the proletariat, through collective class struggle and revolutionary self-emancipation, can genuinely overthrow the capitalist system that sustains fascist and oppressive conditions.

#Fascism #AntiFascism #Capitalism #AntiCapitalism



BREAKING: Washington strikes back: D.C. sues Trump for “illegal” National Guard deployment, citing a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. A California judge already ruled against him. The fight over military on America’s streets just escalated.
nbcnews.com/politics/politics-… #press




"Is it gay if...?"

Just stop.

Once you understand that _everything_ is gay, you can save yourself so much unnecessary mental toil.

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First time in my life running Linux with SecureBoot thanks to lanzaboote 🥳

github.com/nix-community/lanza…

#nixos



Brad Pitt sborsa 12 milioni per villa sulle colline di Hollywood - People - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/canale_lifestyle/notizie/people/2025/09/04/brad-pitt-sborsa-12-milioni-per-villa-sulle-colline-di-hollywood_30588df4-97d1-48b9-84db-bd7fa40029f2.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Lifestyle @lifestyle-AgenziaAnsa



Between "boosts" and "favorites" Mastodon now shows the number of "quote" posts.

Is this new functionality to be rolled out? And is there any information on how to block or control this (as abuse via the badly implemented quote system is one of the things I disliked about Twitter).

edit: see @leonoverweel's post @ mastodon.online/@leonoverweel@…

#mastodon #fediverse #quote

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Radioterapia per 6 malati oncologici su 10, ma restano le paure - Focus Tumore news - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/canale_saluteebenessere/notizie/focus_tumore/2025/09/04/radioterapia-per-6-malati-oncologici-su-10-ma-restano-le-paure_4a66fce1-9cc0-497c-aa2a-da91db44c07a.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Salute e Benessere @salute-e-benessere-AgenziaAnsa



How do you keep doing the inner work instead of loosing interest?
in reply to Stacy

STAY positive and forgive yourself if you do. The journey to selfhood is fraught with setbacks 🙂
in reply to Stacy

P.s I am a highly flawed individual although I usually try to strive to be better ☻️


So excited to go to both #Oasis shows in Pasadena this weekend, or as I’m calling it “the British Eras Tour but more boys will be there!”


—> The Daily Show #TDS <—

Commander-In-Beef:
#Trump Faces Off Against the #Media, #Zelenskyy, #Harvard & More

What do President #Zelenskyy,
Governor #GavinNewsom & #Harvard have in Common?

They've all had Beef with #DonaldTrump

Here's a rundown of Trump's latest face-offs

#TheDailyShow #DailyShow
#Comedy #Humour #Humor
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
youtu.be/I4Yj-7ArBvU



Menuda semana... Menos mal que mañana es 7 de enero...


in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

As to bruises, I nearly always have a few. They mean for me that I'm on blood thinners from stent surgery some time ago. Perhaps Trump is on blood thinners in hopes it will get some needed blood to his brain.



Ferrari, Hamilton aiuta Leclerc: “Pronto a dargli la scia se sarà in lotta per la pole a Monza”
https://www.lastampa.it/sport/2025/09/04/news/formula_1_ferrari_hamilton_leclerc_monza-15295515/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su La Stampa Sport @la-stampa-sport-LaStampa



Make Hitler Great Again

Trump's agenda out in the open (as if it ever wasn't).

Germany has been notably silent on US domestic politics, it's worth observing, whereas I'd doubt the reverse is true (substitute 'Western Europe' for 'Germany' if you like - works just as well).

Why might that be?

14-daty gift read

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

#uspol #politics

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The Epstein files are still not public because hundreds of House Republicans are obstructing their release at the request of Trump

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Please note: Dwójka does not broadcast the announced concert from Wroclaw.


The @nixos_org NixCon 2025 doesn‘t take place in the EU 🇪🇺 this year but switzerland 🇨🇭. So we can have a different cookie policy 🍪!! 🎉🥳



Οι υποτακτικοί είναι κατάλληλοι για να καταπιέζουν.

Οι Αθηναίοι χρησιμοποιούσαν ως αστυνομικούς μόνο δούλους. Όποιος ασκεί την καταπίεση ως επάγγελμα, δεν μπορεί παρά να είναι ο ίδιος ένας υποδειγματικός καταπιεσμένος. Αυτή είναι η βαθύτερη αιτία που στον στρατό και στην αστυνομία η τυφλή υπακοή και η παράλογη εκπαίδευση παίζουν τόσο μεγάλο ρόλο. Όποιος έχει συνηθίσει να κάνει ερωτήσεις, είναι κακός, καταπιεσμένος και επομένως δεν κάνει για επιστάτης. Πώς μπορεί κάποιος που στοχάζεται γύρω από τη νομιμότητα των κατεστημένων κανόνων, να χτυπάει, να μαχαιρώνει ή να πυροβολεί εργάτες, όπως απαιτούν οι νόμοι έκτακτης ανάγκης σ’ ορισμένες περιπτώσεις; Η σημερινή εκπαίδευση που γίνεται στην αστυνομία και στον στρατό είναι μια επανάληψη της διαδικασίας μετατροπής των δούλων, σε φύλακες που προδίδουν τους συντρόφους τους.

Στα ναζιστικά στρατόπεδα συγκέντρωσης, μερικοί από τους πιο έμπιστους επόπτες ήταν κρατούμενοι. Ο εκδημοκρατισμός του στρατού δεν ελαττώνει τη δύναμη κρούσης του προς τα έξω σε περίπτωση αμυντικού πολέμου, αλλά την ελαττώνει σε περίπτωση επιθετικού πολέμου, ο εκδημοκρατισμός ελαττώνει, πάνω απ’ όλα, τη δύναμη κρούσης προς τα μέσα. Δεν υπάρχει ούτε μια γνωστή ανθρώπινη κοινωνία του παρελθόντος, στην οποία το κράτος να μην ήταν ένας μηχανισμός καταπίεσης της πλειοψηφίας από μια μειοψηφία. Έτσι ήταν στη δουλοκτητική κοινωνία της Αθήνας και της Ρώμης, έτσι ήταν σ’ όλες τις φεουδαλικές κοινωνίες.

Όταν οι δουλοπάροικοι χωρικοί επαναστάτησαν, ο ιδεολόγος των τότε αφεντάδων, Μαρτίνος Λούθηρος, έγραψε: «Όποιος μπορεί, πρέπει να τους συντρίψει, να τους στραγγαλίσει και να τους μαχαιρώσει, κρυφά και φανερά, όπως σκοτώνει κανείς ένα λυσσασμένο σκυλί!». Κι αυτό ακριβώς έκαναν οι ευσεβείς πρίγκιπες με τη βοήθεια του νόμου και της τάξης, των δικαστών, των δημίων, της αστυνομίας και των στρατιωτών. Ακόμα και σήμερα οι Εκκλησίες λένε ότι κάθε εξουσία πηγάζει από τον Θεό. Σωστότερο θα ήταν να πούμε ότι κάθε Θεός πηγάζει από την εξουσία

«Η κατασκευή υπηκόων – Πως κατασκευάζεται μια γνώμη σ’ ένα κεφάλι» του Ερνστ Αλεξάντερ Ράουτερ



Masked and Still

I’ve been posting a lot of photos of Carolina chickadees (Poecile carolinensis) lately—there’s no shortage of them around here this year. It’s fascinating to watch them dart in and out of the forest, like punctuation marks in motion.

Step into a world where even the smallest moments—like the glint in a bird's eye—tell their own story.

swede1952-photographs.pixels.c…

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #CarolinaChickadee

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L’Ucraina “porcospino d’acciaio” e le garanzie di 26 Paesi: ecco il piano dei Volenterosi per Kiev
https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/2025/09/04/news/piano_volenterosi_ucraina_guerra-15295475/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Le notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo @le-notizie-dall-italia-e-dal-mondo-LaStampa



This week on The Servitor, Abi reads AI 2027 and Ed Zitron's "How to argue with an AI booster" and tries to find reality.

Main conclusion: Possible end of world from AI in 2027 is an awfully short timeline for doom. Doom has a lot of work to do if it wants to make its deadline.

theservitor.com/my-take-on-the…

#AI #AI2027 #tech #opinion



What would help your inner work go further?


#WordWeavers day 4: Compare your MCs in the beginning and the end of the story. What changed? What’s the same?

Spoiler territory. I mean... really.



Voyant le message de @Troll
maly.io/@Troll/115146565270312…
ça me fait penser qu'il existe une petite appli pas mal #Noice pour faire des #bruitsBlancs
f-droid.org/packages/com.githu…

Et comme on peut télécharger les sons sur le tel, pas de #streaming, c'est plus écolo

#relaxation #sons #nature


10 heures de bruit de ventilateur, 105 millions de vues :kekw:

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Quan no és que el sistema no giri fi, si no que és una puta merda i a ningú amb poder d'arreglar-ho li importa un borrall:

flipboard.com/@eldiarioes/eldi…