Daniel Stilwell

Historian of Comfort & Arts & Crafts Revivalist @CharlesHollArch
...thinking about home, comfort & domestic life 🏡 📚🥑
Sponsored by @arrantland 🚲

[Daniel Stilwell @danieljstilwell]

@Se_Railway I’m fully aware of the complex nuances of your system. I’m just blown away at the cost differences and how the one off peak time I have traveled has almost bankrupt me.

[Daniel Stilwell @danieljstilwell]

Your ticket prices are wild @Se_Railway.

Approx £88 for a return to St Pancras from Canterbury on the 08:23. If I get the 10:23 it would only cost £27 with a Network Rail card.

[Daniel Stilwell @danieljstilwell]

You will of course say book ahead or get the later train with a discount card BUT this is not always possible (like today).

[Daniel Stilwell @danieljstilwell]

The ticket officer kindly offered me two singles: an outward ticket for £48 and a return with the railcard for £27.

So I got a bargain price of £75 for my journey… a £13 difference.

[fucking every word @fuckeveryword]

fuck uncomfortable

[Museum of the Home @MuseumoftheHome]

🍂 This nesting season, @UAL invited our Director Sonia Solicari to curate Home (dis)Comforts, a #UALShowcase of 14 graduate projects exploring how we shape homes for comfort—and as spaces to face domestic challenges, including inequalities.

🔗https://t.co/eMZUEpyNzm

[ACORN the union @ACORNunion]

“The govt’s assessment for the Renters’ Rights Bill predicts the net core cost to landlords of just £12 a year per home.”

Yet landlord lobbyists are fighting tooth and nail against it & crying poverty. They just don’t want to see tenants have more rights! https://t.co/CUPlcOkhC3

[ACORN the union @ACORNunion]

Where do the houses go when landlords sell up? Do they turn into fairy dust? Disappear into another dimension?

[Dan Wilson Craw 🇺🇦🥑🏘 @danwilsoncraw]

Deposit protection is one of the few ways England leads the world on renting policy - eg Ireland is only now setting their system up.

But @genrentuk research finds that most renters whose landlord claims unreasonable end-of-tenancy deductions aren't benefiting 🧵1/

[ACORN the union @ACORNunion]

🚨BREAKING: Rent inflation stats are out—and it makes for grim reading.

Annual rents are currently rising 8.7%.

That’s 4x faster than inflation, and the 15th consecutive month of annual rent price inflation above 8%.

1/5

[Generation Rent @genrentuk]

🚨New figures from the ONS reveal that rent inflation is STILL outpacing wages, with inflation at 8.4%.

⚠️Rents have been getting less affordable for over a year, but there's nothing in the Renters' Rights Bill to address this.

[Daniel Stilwell @danieljstilwell]

@sundaegirl Definitely thought you were talking about specifications there.

[Daniel Stilwell @danieljstilwell]

Metropolitan Blue will be the next Le Creuset colourway, I’d bet money on it.

[The Guardian @guardian]

Police called after Le Creuset warehouse sale brings four-hour queues https://t.co/UZCQxZwkC2

[Daniel Stilwell @danieljstilwell]

@RobGMacfarlane The brilliant @peterfrankopan and his Earth Transformed might have it amongst its episodic pages.

[Daniel Stilwell @danieljstilwell]

@OSaumarezSmith I’m getting a Gaudi meets van Eyck vibe with those pops of fenestration colours.

The mosaic tiles around the surrounds are a little Hundertwasser-y too.

[Daniel Stilwell @danieljstilwell]

@OSaumarezSmith I knew it would already be on your radar. It’s such a great photograph.

[Daniel Stilwell @danieljstilwell]

One for @OSaumarezSmith.

[The i Paper @theipaper]

Landlord ‘mass exodus’ possible following Budget despite low mortgage rates

🔴 @gracegausden93 reports https://t.co/IOaWHXeaKw

[Vicky Spratt @Victoria_Spratt]

If - and it’s an IF - there is a ‘mass exodus’ of landlords following the budget, homes will not disappear. They will be sold and bought by other people - other landlords or owner occupiers. Or, in some cases, councils who have Right to Buy back funds as some in London do.

[Daniel Stilwell @danieljstilwell]

@cyhsal @C20Society Very much so. Anything with the A&C stamp is always welcome!