Auckland Rise residents suffer the 'curse' of Brick by Brick
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, reports on how some of the warnings about the council house-builders’ ‘affordable’ homes are becoming an costly reality in Crystal Palace
Residents in supposedly “affordable” shared ownership homes built in Crystal Palace by the council-owned developer Brick by Brick have been hit with a 35% service charge hike.
Highly charged: Sinead Harmey (right), a…
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Prairie Man: My Little House Life & Beyond by Dean Butler #BookReview #NetGalley #Citadel #Memoir #LHOTP #Television #50thAnniversary #LauraIngallsWilder
If you're a fan of 1970s television show #LHOTP, you'll want to check out Dean Butler's memoir, #PrairieMan. It's heartfelt and honest, and just the thing I needed to read during this #50thanniversary year. #ARC #NetGalley #BookReview #CitadelBooks
Cast just before his twenty-third birthday, Dean Butler joined Little House on the Prairie halfway through its run, gaining instant celebrity and fans’ enduring affection. Ironically, when the late, great Michael Landon remarked that Little House would outlive everyone involved in making it, Butler deemed it unlikely. Yet for four decades and counting, Butler has been defined in the public eye as…
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£68m: final cost of Brick by Brick, as agreed by Mayor Perry
£68m
This is what a “solvent liquidation” looks like, according to Croydon’s elected Mayor Jason Perry.
That’s the latest final estimate of the exit costs of winding down and closing Brick by Brick, the failed housing company set up by “regeneration practitioner” Jo “Negreedy” Negrini, and councillors Tony Newman and his Labour mates Simon Hall, Alison Butler and Paul Scott.
To date, no recovery…
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Transgender Books For Your Libraries
I have said this before, but right now requesting and reading queer books from your local library is important. I want to take a second to say there is a direct attack against the transgender community around the globe, and it's worth your time to request and read transgender books. So, here are some transgender books to request:
(Some links are affiliate links and the money goes to Making Queer History's research fund)
People Change, Vivek Shraya
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Judith Butler
The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw
Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure, MX Sly
Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi
Amateur: A Reckoning with Gender, Identity, and Masculinity, Thomas Page McBee
The Subtweet, Vivek Shraya
Dark and Deepest Red, A. M. McLemore
A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Fantabulous Memoir, Kai Cheng Thom
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, Akwaeke Emezi
Dead Collections, Isaac Fellman
Disintegrate/Dissociate, Arielle Twist
Tell Me I'm Worthless, Alison Rumfitt
How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life, Jeffrey Marsh
A Lady for a Duke, Alexis Hall
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality, Sarah McBride
The Perks of Loving a Wallflower, Erica Ridley
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World, Kai Cheng Thom
We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film, Tre'vell Anderson
Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon
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long list of celebs who are currently or have a history of supporting israel if u see someone not on this list please add to it in the comments or tags!!
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It's so cute how Kitty's memories reveal how she thinks of her friends as family. Captain is her father, Alison is her sister, Fanny is her strict governess, Julian is a fun (though alcoholic) reverand, Mary and Pat are her...aunts...Thomas is a potential suitor...
And Robin is a....saucy butler?? Idk.
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