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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 1d

Cricket in Corfu - this lovely article is the most cheering thing I have read in ages…. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

The Spin | Cricket in Corfu causes confusion but also unexpected delight for a few

Seeing a match on the Greek island may be unusual but it gave one American boy a touching link to his dead father

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 3d

Bristolian here - we feel the same pain…

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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 3d

Has the Treasury never visited Manchester?

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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 3d

Great piece. And as somebody who lives in a conurbation that ought to be doubling its size to a million people but entirely lacks a tram or metro system, the comment about “crappy regional transport networks” rings as clear as a bell.

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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 3d

Melbourne and Leipzig and Berlin etc seem to be hobbling on quite satisfactorily with their old tram systems…

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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 3d

Wouldn’t the SNP want an independence referendum as a price for their support?

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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 4d

Haven’t you written about Brexit before?

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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 4d

I note that you carefully avoid making any comment on Lord Wolfson’s advice overall. This is quite understandable given that you contributed part of one section of his advice, but it leaves a large hole in the article, given its subject…

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you.

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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 11d

No doubt the Qatari PM accepted the apology with the same degree of sincerity with which it was given…

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 11d

So Sir Terry Farrell has died, aged 87, a fortnight after his one-time architectural partner Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. Farrell was a particularly talented large-scale urbanist. An era ends.

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 12d

In honour of the taskforce recommending a “new” town on the outskirts of Bristol (South Gloucestershire), I’m reposting my piece: Bristol should be a city of a million people

acjsissons.medium.com/bristol-shou...

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Thomas Aubrey @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social · 17d

Financing infrastructure without unnerving the bond market @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social @tonytassell.bsky.social @pickardje.bsky.social @marymcd.bsky.social @pmdfoster.bsky.social @greenmirandahere.bsky.social

Thomas Aubrey @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social · 17d

My latest @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk piece on how the Chancellor can finance the next wave of infrastructure without unnerving the bond market. The Chancellor’s attempt to increase capital investment resulted in a negative reaction from the bond market. As www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/financi...

Financing infrastructure without unnerving the bond market - Bennett School of Public Policy

The Chancellor’s attempt to increase capital investment in her first budget resulted in a negative reaction from the bond market. As growth slows, the Chancellor needs to fundamentally rethink her app...

www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17d

Nailed it, Cass

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

But your wife is one of the great human-rights experts in the world. I asked you about him being anti-liberal, and your response was that he was very nice to you about your book.
About Star Wars.
It is certainly a touching story. But that's not totally an answer to the question.
Yeah. Well, I don't know. What he would think of this book I'd love to
know.

Professor, thank you so much for doing this.
Great, thanks. If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn't complain, because it could dwarf everything else. *

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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 20d

A very Dakotan name…

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 21d

No mincing of words in this @ecfr.eu policy brief on the China-Russia relationship

ecfr.eu/publication/...

Win, lose or draw in Ukraine, Russia will continue to receive Chinese support. There is nothing in China’s strategic positioning to suggest Beijing would cease to extend this support to Moscow.
No “reverse Nixon” policy by the West—to peel Russia away from China—is possible. Europeans should also resist any temptation to believe they can alter Chinese calculations vis-à-vis Russia. They must forge a new China policy on the basis that the country is deliberately prolonging war on their continent.

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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 22d

A raw experience to see Dana Awartani’s ‘Standing by the ruins’ at the Arnolfini in Bristol as the destruction of Gaza City, which inspired it, reaches its climax…

A tile mosaic by Dana Awartani called Standing by the ruins

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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 23d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

The frantic race to protect historic treasures from Israeli bombs - BBC News

As Israel continues its bombardment, Palestinians are trying to protect what remains of Gaza’s ancient artefacts

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 23d

On 1 December 1842, a clergyman was killed by a falling vault at Ferrey’s new church in East Grafton. It has been suggested that this collapse led to a greater stylistic collapse: that of the Romanesque Revival itself. This online lecture examines the ‘lamentable accident’ in detail
bit.ly/3IfvVvE

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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 23d

The UK is struggling to build serious hard power in continental Europe. Building significant hard power in Asia is way beyond its capabilities…

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Chris Costelloe @chriscostelloe.bsky.social · 23d

Does he really believe it or is it just what a UK ambassador to the US felt he had to say in advance of Trump state visit, combined with a bit of tech bromide probably courtesy of the Tony Blair Institute?

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Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social · 25d

So long, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, 1939-2025. One of the most original and inventive architects of his generation, an inspiring and effective President of the Royal Academy, and a gentleman.

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Matthew Mckeague @memckeague.bsky.social · 29d

A hugely deserving winner. Much talk of how King's Cross should be the template for regeneration in the UK; I personally think The Buttermarket in Redruth is more relevant for most places!

The Architectural Heritage Fund @archhfund.org.uk · 29d

A 'standout, impactful project'.

Another amazing achievement for The Buttermarket, which has taken home the top prize - Retrofit of the Year award - at this year's AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards. 🎉

Congratulations to Architectural Thread and Redruth Revival CIC. 👏
bit.ly/4pjnyja

AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards top prize goes to Redruth community scheme

The Buttermarket, a project led by heritage specialist Architectural Thread, has taken home the highly coveted Retrofit of the year award for being a ‘standout, impactful project’

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · Sep 3

I came across Fernand Pouillon's work in Marseille. I didn't realise he'd led such an, er, interesting life:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Point block and multi-storey apartment block in Marseille designed by Pouillon

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · Sep 2

Another great article. It's ironic that we who support HS2 have spent nearly 20 years saying "It's misnamed - it's really about capacity more than speed" when a big part of HS2's failure is that someone, early on, decided it needed to be able to go much faster than European high speed rail.

Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info · Sep 2

Absolutely! So much depends on a clear, dependable pipeline. As per this post, HS2 should have been... a pipeline:

www.freewheeling.info/blog/swiss-hs2

This is how the Swiss would have done HS2 — Freewheeling

HS2 has become a case study in how not to build infrastructure. But what if we’d taken a different path entirely? In this post, I imagine how the Swiss would have done it: starting with the timetabl...

www.freewheeling.info

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