The Burnhamocalypse (Odds and Ends #102)

A newsletter roundup discusses Andy Burnham's political influence, AI in planning systems, Ukraine's open data, and the discovery of Liz Truss's 'Jenga' lectern.

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.