Monthly Archives: March 2026
Fears of contractor ‘instability’ mount amid gateway three delays
Delays to gateway three approvals for higher-risk buildings (HRBs) may trigger financial “instability” among contractors, according to industry analysts.
Their warnings came as a Freedom of Information (FOI) request showed 44 schemes are still awaiting a gateway three decision more than three months after those applications were submitted to the Building Safety Regulator.
The statutory timeframe for a gateway three decision is eight weeks.
Geoff Wilkinson, managing director of Wilkinson Construction Consultants, told Construction News: “For a lot of these projects, the profit margin is low.
“It doesn’t take a lot of delay and additional bridging costs before you’ve wiped out any profitability.
“That will undoubtedly lead to further instability for contractors.”
He added: “I would be shocked if we didn’t see further contractor failures, particularly subcontractors.”
Wilkinson’s comments echoed previous concerns expressed by Rudi Klein, a barrister and former chief...
Gavin Newsom Gets TORCHED for Playing Victim After Ted Cruz’s Jab (‘Victimhood Self-Own’ INCOMING)
We're still about two years until the presidential primaries are off and running, and already some potential candidates are trying way too hard to get the upper hand. This story started with Sen. Ted Cruz calling Gavin Newsom "historically illiterate" on an episode of his podcast:— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 16, 2026"Historically illiterate," eh?
If you're in the perpetual victimization culture, how do you translate that?
Simple:Ted Cruz calling a dyslexic person illiterate is a new low, even for him. https://t.co/XC75ybiGKd— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) February 16, 2026Dude, seriously? That reminded us of when Biden would say something incoherent and his handlers (and many in the media) would shame people for mocking his "lifelong stutter."
Maybe Newsom's worse off than we thought.Is your dyslexia the reason that you don’t know what...
Labi Siffre Announces First Album in 28 Years, Shares New Song
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Labi Siffre, the 80-year-old British folk musician, is back after spending decades out of the spotlight. He just announced his first new album in 28 years; the appropriately titled Unfinished Business is out later this year on Demon Music Group. He’s also shared the new song “Far Away,” a piano ballad that leans into Siffre’s soul influences, with a music video. Check it out below.
Siffre took a sporadic approach to releasing music over the years, dropping six albums in a five-year span during the ’70s, including his standout LP Crying Laughing Loving Lyingbefore retiring. However, he returned for brief stints in the ’80s and ’90s. His last records, the full-length album The Last Songs and the spoken-word poetry collection Monumentboth came out in 1998.
Still, Siffre hasn’t been totally silent this decade: he released the...
