Brian Robson

@brianrobson.bsky.social

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I want more people to live in a decent, affordable home. Don't you? Work: Director Housing & Homelessness, @oak-foundation.bsky.social Outside work: Dad, bookworm, sedate cyclist | Mackem in North Yorks | Trustee @thetcpa.bsky.social | Views mine.

A red and yellow banner reads 'The past we inherit, the future we build'
The Thames Barrier at low tide. A series of silver shrouds stand in the river.
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Liverpool from the outside.
A copy of the book 'Loaners' by Ben Hodgson and Laura Moulton lies on a desk. It's a white, blue and grey cover. To its side there's a mousemat and a keyboard.
A copy of Ann Patchett's 'These Precious Days' lies on a stone bench. The book is white with a green stripe along the spine. A painting of a dog on a cushion is on the cover.
View of the riverside road disappearing under the park
Huge expanse of space in front of the market hall and left towards the river Tees.
A series of steps and ramps lead down to the River Tees. The Teesquay Millennium Footbridge is in the background.
A copy of For and Against A United Ireland, by Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride stands on a window sill. It's a yellow book. In the background there's a cityscape and the sky is blue.
A copy of 'The Secret Scripture' by Sebastian Barry lies on a table with a cup of tea next to it
A copy of 'Political Fictions' by Joan Didion stands on a car dashboard. In the background the windscreen is covered in rain (I was in Ireland!)
A copy of the book London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe.
Belfast City Hall illuminated at dusk.
Penshaw Monument in Sunderland
A stack of Granta's Joseph Roth books is topped by 'A Life in Letters'
Text in white neon reads 'you create what you will'
Text in blue neon around a clock reads 'radical patience'
A copy of Dis/Integration by William Melvin Kelley stands on a table. The book has a sketch of an ocean liner sailing away, silhouetted by a red sun.
A Penguin edition of Seichō Matsumoto's 'Inspector Imanishi Investigates' is held in a hand. In the background, there's a blue SouthEastern train.
A copy of the book 'Universality' by Natasha Brown lies on a garden bench, the slats painted willow green.
A hand holds a copy of 'A $500 House in Detroit: rebuilding an abandoned home and an American City's by Drew Philp.
A stack of books, from top to bottom: Feeling at Home, by Alva Gotby Never Split the Difference, by Chris Voss If Russia Wins, by Carlo Masala My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Otessa Moshfegh From Germany to Germany, by Günter Grass.
Article from the Yorkshire Evening Post, June 1955. The Director of Wakefield Art Gallery says that Leeds is an ugly city, because it hasn't embraced the artists.
A hand holds a copy of 'Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing' by Alva Gotby. In the background are colourful tower blocks.
A copy of the book 'Never Split The Difference - negotiating as if your life depended on it' by Chris Voss, with Tahl Raz.