# The Burnhamocalypse (Odds and Ends #102) > Source: > Published: 2026-06-24 06:01:45+00:00 # The Burnhamocalypse (Odds and Ends #102) ### Plus the Liz Truss 'jenga' lectern has been found! And more! **POD! **On * YIMBY Pod* this week, we dig more into plans to use AI to speed up the planning system, speaking to Faculty AI’s **Paul Maltby**, who is working on the Augmented Planning Decisions programme. Plus – does Wychavon even exist?! [Listen here, or wherever you get your pods!](https://yimbypod.com) **ESSAY! **Don’t forget to read [my big piece on this week on ten years when I went viral for an incredibly silly reason](https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/londependence). (I pressed send instead of schedule on it, so you might have to scroll a bit further in your inbox to find it!). Hello! It’s time for *Odds and Ends*, your semi-regular round-up of the most interesting links I’ve seen this week, plus some shorter takes. This week is accidentally a bit of an Andy Burnham special, so I am writing this while wearing a bucket hat and listening to [Sonic Boom Six](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfBy_me9ij4), Manchester’s finest ska-punk band. Anyway, please do read on as this week I’m featuring: An interview with, er, me A devastating takedown of Andy Burnham ...And the case for a more optimistic view of Burnham How Ukraine has embraced open-ish data A tool to find out what Burnham thinks about... anything How the Swiss would have built HS2 And Liz Truss’s infamous ‘Jenga’ lectern has been found! So let’s get started! ## Keep reading with a 7-day free trial Subscribe to Odds and Ends of History to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.