Matthew Lloyd Roberts @MatthewLloydR
phd @csca_cambridge - podcasts @about_buildings @TheSAHGB - pg rep @cambridgeucu #Justice4CollegeSupervisors - email matt.lloydr at https://t.co/uqn9SWdMrR - he/him instagram.com/matthewlloydr London, England Joined August 2017-
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Today marks 8 years since the Grenfell fire which claimed the lives of 72 people. The companies who manufactured the ACM cladding still receive public contracts. As demands for corporate accountability grow, we have the following questions for the Government. 🧵
Recorded @OpenCity_UK podcast with @MatthewLloydR yesterday, talking about the Keeper's Lodge on Plumstead Common, built by the LCC in 1894.
Tickets are still available (although selling fast!) for a walking tour of Poundbury with @MatthewLloydR on the 7th June! open-city.org.uk/events/poundbu…
NEW: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University who was arrested and attempted to be deported by the Trump administration, receives his degree during a commencement ceremony at the university this morning. Mahdawi, wearing a keffiyeh, bowed to the cheering…
📢In the latest Deconstructed podcast, host @MatthewLloydR discuses the past, present and future of London's troubled Euston station with architectural historian @EwanMHarrison🎙️🎧shows.acast.com/opencity/episo…
.@akalamusic on knife crime
the thing about Jeremiah Wright’s sermon is that it was fucking hard
My comrade, DK Renton, while saliently arguing for maximum rents, makes the excellent and evergreen point that LANDLORDS are the biggest drains on the welfare bill, not disabled people. Housing benefit costs the taxpayer £35 BILLION ANNUALLY revsoc21.uk/2025/03/19/why…
The solution to what’s called the “housing affordability crisis” does not lie in the market. It lies with making social-rent council housing the priority, as the Attlee government did. Funding should only go to social-rent homes.... theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
Great thread on the perils of benefit cuts!
📢 This month's Deconstructed podcast focuses on the Charles Henry Driver-designed Crossness Pumping Station with special guest Petra Cox and host Matthew Lloyd Roberts. On Resonance 104.4 FM at 2pm today 🎧🎙️
@KhemRogaly of @Cmmonwealth on the nose, as usual! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
71 Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh. An 1830 villa owned by University of Edinburgh. In 2022 and today....
Israel doesn’t want Gaza to produce its own energy, which is why it bombed Gaza’s only power plant in 2008 & 2014 and consistently prevented its repair by restricting the entry of construction materials ever since. Israel uses Gaza’s energy dependence as a weapon of control.
Israel doesn’t want Gaza to produce its own energy, which is why it bombed Gaza’s only power plant in 2008 & 2014 and consistently prevented its repair by restricting the entry of construction materials ever since. Israel uses Gaza’s energy dependence as a weapon of control.
As a @Columbia faculty member, I am disgusted and appalled by the university collaborating with the Department of Homeland Security & ICE to detain CU grad and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. He is a legal US resident with a wife who is 8 months pregnant. Despicable conduct
As a @Columbia faculty member, I am disgusted and appalled by the university collaborating with the Department of Homeland Security & ICE to detain CU grad and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. He is a legal US resident with a wife who is 8 months pregnant. Despicable conduct
🆕 The Sceaux Gardens Estate, Camberwell Metropolitan Borough Council, 1959. ‘The most interesting housing scheme to come from a Metropolitan Borough Architect’s Department' according to the Architects' Journal ... municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/sce…
This is terrible. The bit about the Electric not being important on a national level says a lot about how Birmingham is viewed. Who outside of Birmingham even made a noise about this? We all know that if the Electric was in London there'd be mass outrage and it would be saved.
This is terrible. The bit about the Electric not being important on a national level says a lot about how Birmingham is viewed. Who outside of Birmingham even made a noise about this? We all know that if the Electric was in London there'd be mass outrage and it would be saved.
in a real job, you’d get sacked for this btw

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