Germanist @UofGSMLC working on Architecture in Literature & Film | Urban Humanities | East(ern) Germany | Formerly Dublin, Durham, Bristol, Leipzig | he/him
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined October 2010
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"It's the so-called 'normal' guys that always let you down. Sickos never scare me. At least they're committed." Catwoman
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£6m/year out of £200m spent per year on Neighbourhood and Regeneration Services, almost £2bn/year on all council services.
We can and should be spending a lot more on cycles lanes.
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They can't find anyone from the UK to say this on air. Appreciate Cate Blanchett taking on the task.
"There's a toxic narrative around displacement which has been politicised"
Cate Blanchett, a co-founder of the ‘Displacement Film Fund’, speaks to #Newsnight about attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.
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30 years ago, Susan Dell infiltrated the White House. Guess who let her in?👽🏛👀
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Two youngsters stop to check out photographer Ian Woods as he points his lens along Hospital St in the Gorbals in the 1950s. Out of shot to the left is Alexander Thomson's Caledonia Rd church. The kids on the left are standing on the little island in front of it.
📷 IRJ Woods
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Around the same time, Douglas Corrance was taking similar shots of Glasgow that didn’t make it look like hell on earth.
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Before the "horror" genre existed, there was this masterpiece of German Expressionism:
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Hutchesontown, Gorbals photographed in 1956 before the wrecking balls moved in. Densely packed tenements skirt the Southern Necropolis at Caledonia Rd, while the Govan Iron Works thunders on in its death throes just 2 years before it would close.
#Glasgow
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Someone better hurry up and tell all these people to stop enjoying themselves and that this place is a shit hole and they're all about to get murdered by scary people from other countries.
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#FunFactFriday: GCSE Results edition!
A great year again for GCSE German, congratulations to the over 30,000 students who sat the subject, and thank you also to the fantastic teachers who have taught them!
Wrote a little thing about Germany's disintrest in its (particularly East German) film heritage for the Freitag. (note: title and subheaders are not by me) freitag.de/autoren/der-freit…
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Remove the VAT for refurbishment and restoration @andyburnham it makes no sense that new-builds get a tax discount when we need to maintain and retrofit millions of existing buildings to make them work for our changing climate.
In Britain, restoring a historic stone building still costs 20% more in tax than knocking it down and putting up a glass box
The system has been making that choice for developers since 1994
Most people think this only kills old buildings
But worst: it also kills the skill base that could rebuild them
Britain now has fewer than 2,000 stonemasons left
Our robots exist because the human capacity was allowed to collapse
We’re restoring the industrial capacity the tax code spent 30 years destroying
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Quietly, without fuss, Victorian engineers & architects learnt how to create deep and attractive buildings with glass façades to let in the light. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner thought that these were the “path” to modernism. He was wrong: they are too playful….
