Ollie Rudkin
@ollierudkin
Commercial photographer & film-maker. aesthetics; geography. Tweeting abt London, business, policy w/no relevant qualifications.
Take that, private renters
UPDATE!! Southwark's planning officer’s report for the Aylesham Shopping Centre application is RECOMMENDING REFUSAL this Tuesday! Come to our Anti-Berkeley Party Tues 15th July outside Southwark HQ, 160 Tooley St SE1 2QH We're ready to fight Berkeley at the national level! 💥
Spiralling housing costs in the South East of England have cost us 3.1% of productivity. Great new report by @HomesEngland
A more profound structural shift in the UK economy: From industrial capital formation → to financialised policy delivery From private risk taking → to publicly anchored credit Markets are functioning, but they’re intermediating the State, not the private sector. A healthy…
Don't drop out of college to start or work for a startup. There will be other (and probably better) startup opportunities, but you can't get your college years back.
For this and every other area of infrastructure
Cannot emphasise how bad this is. Our costs for electrification are dire entirely because we only do it in boom and bust bursts. If you have to train a workforce of 1000s every time you want to do a project it’s always going to lead to cost blowouts as they start from scratch!
You’re not in the Facebook screenwriting group, you are the Facebook screenwriting group
I have found a worse place than Reddit and it’s all the Facebook screenwriting groups.
rightoid tries to gotcha guy who is quite charming and polite
'What do you think are British values?' @StevenEdginton finds out from South London locals what it means to be British.
There is only one thing worse than being unsuccessful because of your lack of private education and that is being unsuccessful despite your private education.
the idea that the NHS uniquely provides doctors with a 'job for life' is ridiculous. That is a feature of having a medical licence.
Threatening doctors with market-based remuneration. Has he thought this one through?
MMT people have never explained how we wouldn’t get killed in the forex markets + inflation of imports.
There’s a persistent myth that our government is somehow at the mercy of the financial markets and that it has to dance to their tune. This is most definitely doing the rounds this week, mainly as a result of Labour's mismanagement of its own party, and Rachel Reeves' subsequent…
Amazon admits that AI has not provided any significant value to the enterprise- and these CEOs are under constant pressure to talk up the benefits of AI.
A new form of price occultation emerges in America
AirBnB hosts charging a $200 cleaning fee while simultaneously demanding you clean every square inch of the rental to exacting specifications remains the biggest scam in modern history.
Formality in the workplace will become increasingly important.
Mark Carney is making his staff dress properly and use British spelling in documents:
It took 3 years to build the Empire State Building. It takes 1 year to build 4 escalators in modern Britain.
Cutty Sark station will be closed from Sat 31 May 2025 until spring 2026. This is because we're installing four new energy-efficient escalators at Cutty Sark station to improve your journeys. Plan your journey ahead 👇 tfl.gov.uk/travel-tools
AI will put you out of work (you'll use AI and your work will be so crap that you get fired)