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bassoon-tootling when not in a library

[Times Higher Education @timeshighered]

UK university libraries ‘£51 million worse off than last year’

Cuts to library budgets of up to 30 per cent have seen journal subscriptions cancelled and opening hours slashed, says librarians’ association https://t.co/Mip8sH72RW

[Action for Fire Safety Justice @ActionFSJ]

This only has fewer than 800 signatures. Surely there are more non qualifying #leaseholders (and even if you are qualified you should sign to help out) - Remove non-qualifying status for #leasehold flats - #Petitions #BuildingSafetyCrisis https://t.co/9cgbAb5mln

[NonQualifyingLeaseholders @NonQualifyingLH]

✍️EOCS written evidence to PAC inquiry into dangerous cladding remediation

“..shocking to hear politicians & officials categorising people who have lost their homes, been forced into bankruptcy, or taken their own life as "edge cases."

⚖️ @mhclg @AlexJJNorris @AngelaRayner

[NonQualifyingLeaseholders @NonQualifyingLH]

📣 “Really disappointed by what we’ve seen of Labour so far.. after all the support we saw in opposition..
Too
▶️ many issues
▶️ many to barriers to remediation
▶️ many people ruled out of help (#nonqualifyingLH )
⚖️ @AngelaRayner @mhclg @AlexJJNorris need to do a whole lot more”

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

British maths…

“I’ll be there in a minute”
I’ll be there within half an hour.

“I stayed for a couple”
I had 9 pints.

“It was a while ago now”
Anything from a few months to a decade.

“I was in the queue for hours”
I was in the queue for over 8 minutes.

“The queue was a mile long”
The queue had over 6 people in it.

“Give me a sec”
Give me 15-30 minutes.

“I’m just around the corner”
I’m three bus stops away.

“A bit of a trek”
Could be half a mile, could be 100 miles.

“I saw her the other day”
I might have seen her a few days ago, you might have seen her a fortnight ago, nobody knows.

“I’m doing it now”
I’d forgotten about it so I’m about to start doing it in a panic.

“See you later on”
I’ll see you later today.

“I might see you later on”
You won’t be seeing me again today.

“See you later”
I’ve no intention of seeing you again for at least six months.

[LSHTM Library @LSHTMlibrary]

We are delighted to announce the publication of the 3rd ed. of A Classification for Medical and Veterinary Libraries (2024, LSHTM Press) https://t.co/TtW1b35SkA. Originally published in 1936, the scheme has been extensively revised to meet health-focused collections requirements.

[VirtualVirgil @PhilH23]

Amanda’s experience of coming up against what appeared to her to be a largely unknowing and uncaring wall of political obfuscation should weigh heavily on everyone in Parliament. Thank you Glenda for telling her story. @mhclg @EOCS_Official

https://t.co/UwBwzTUf0M

[Dan Bruce @dannybster]

Why is this a battle?
Why is everything building related a battle?
Why doesn't @Keir_Starmer have our backs?
Why doesn't @AngelaRayner have our backs?
Why doesn't @mtpennycook?
Why don't @UKLabour have our backs?

[Dan Bruce @dannybster]

@dominicahern @Keir_Starmer @AngelaRayner @mtpennycook @AlexJJNorris I feel like I've been punched in the gut.

@Keir_Starmer stated the "social contract has been broken... by politicians who promise change and never deliver"

@AngelaRayner was emphatic that "no one is written off or left behind "

Neither of which, apparently, apply to us.

[Cladding Victim  @LostInSW19]

It's not good news if you are a shared owner *and* trapped in the building safety crisis.

@AngelaRayner @mtpennycook @AlexJJNorris this is a crisis made in Whitehall. What are you going to do to fix it?

[Dominic Ahern @dominicahern]

Pennycooked - to be torturously extorted your home by corporations over a long period of time, leaving you penniless and mentally fried, particularly whilst under the watch of government officials ...

[NonQualifyingLeaseholders @NonQualifyingLH]

⚖️@GOVUK Remediation Acceleration Plan announced & per our statement earlier:

“There is nothing on non-cladding defects, nothing for #nonqualifyingLH, nothing for innocent LH’s in buildings under 11m…”

👇Consequences @mhclg highlighted by @k_petrakos & @theipaper today.

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

📢 @UKLabour has announced its Cladding Remediation Acceleration Plan.

The "plan" looks extremely disappointing. Innocent leaseholders and residents across the country need and deserve much more.

Our statement 👇🏼

#EndOurCladdingScandal

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

So anyway, we'll still all be saying the same stuff we've been saying for years to a government with different coloured ties. Which is a familiar feeling in the country at the moment, I think

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

If you live in one of the affected buildings, I don't think life will feel particularly different after this announcement. The problems of non-qualifying leaseholders, non-cladding defects, orphan buildings, insurance costs, interim measures etc etc still stand

[Sophie @SophieLB1]

They've literally rebuilt Notre Dame quicker than getting the cladding off my building #endourcladdingscandal

[LSHTM Library @LSHTMlibrary]

LSHTM 1899-2024: 125 years of Library services. Come and see this new exhibition in the @LSHTMlibrary foyer. View monographs from the Historical Collection alongside 3 posters detailing the history of @LSHTM and @LSHTMlibrary collections. https://t.co/mau0aoSvp2

[CarpE @ec_bsn]

We're waiting @mhclg, or are you no better than your predecessors? Protect all leaseholders @NonQualifyingLH

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

Our statement on the National Audit Office report into dangerous cladding 👇

The Labour government must now get a grip and take control of this living nightmare. The “merry-go-round of buck-passing” must end.

#EndOurCladdingScandal
#NotJustCladding

[UK Cladding Action Group @ukcag]

Our current @UKLabour leaders know everything about the #BuildingSafetyCrisis, because in the shadow cabinet we've been speaking to them for 7 yrs.
They know what to do to solve this. Yet in govt they procrastinate as they try to woo the companies that caused it.

[Brigit Strawbridge @B_Strawbridge]

I can't find a title for this glorious painting of autumn Aspen, but it is by Oregon based (Ukrainian born) artist, Anton Pavlenko 💛