GRAPH - Income Inequality vs Health and social problems
Is Hong Kong getting nearer to UK? (via 草雲居: 倫敦暴亂聯想： 貧富懸殊與社會安定)
Posts tagged UK
Posted 1 year ago
Dan Snow’s Alternative (by nathankw)
AV too complicated?? Well, think about a night in the pub then.
Posted 1 year ago
Widdy: ‘Yes I may be remembered as a dancing banana and not a politician in 20 years. So be it’
‘When I did a documentary about benefits abuse I got 4,000,000 viewers, and that was the real eye-opener,’ she says. ‘If I got up in the House and made the same points in a speech, I’d be lucky if 40 people were aware of it.’
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Posted 1 year ago
UK is setting a trend of urban cycling (and of course growing-your-own), while China is still promoting wealth/quality of life with cars and imported food, shame.
Cycle Journey Planner - Dermot O’Leary’s Nostalgic London (via TransportforLondon)
Posted 2 years ago
Posted 2 years ago
FPTP error 404: Government not found. Please reset your voting system to proportional representation and try again. #dontdoitnick
Posted 2 years ago
How can Labour have 200 more seats but only 6% more voters than Lib Dems’ ? That is so not fair. #ge2010
Posted 2 years ago
Title track. from the Manchester trumpeter’s 2nd album
Posted 2 years ago
The Big Freeze 2010: facts and figures | The Independent
- -22.3C: the lowest temperature recorded, in Altnaharra in Scotland, same temperature as the North Pole
- 57cm: the deepest snow in the UK, in the Pennines
- 8,500: number of schools closed so far
- 322,731: number of extra potholes in the roads of England and Wales
- £5,274,000: the extra car accident insurance claims every day
- £75m: the weekly cost of repairing burst pipes
- £690m: the cost to the economy every day in lost production
- 2,000: number of businesses that could fail in the first quarter of 2010 because of the weather
(via Transition Culture)
Posted 2 years ago
“Don’t ever go into the restaurant business. It kills marriages, it kills relationships, and it kills life. It kills everything. And I, the man with four ex-wives, should know.”
Keith Floyd, the first of a new breed of celebrity chef, has died of a heart attack today. He was 65. (via Mail Online | BBC)
Posted 3 years ago
TateShots: A therapy session for unhappy artworks.
This short film is an extract from a longer sequence of therapy sessions, where shapes from Popovas paintings made a positive decision to try and develop a workable relationship. Their natural asymmetry had led to almost irreconcilable differences, and it was a HUGE step forward to even have them sitting in the same room.
Posted 3 years ago
Wallpaper* ‘Sliding House’
The brief was simple: to build a house to retire to in order to grow food, entertain and enjoy the East Anglia landscape. The outcome was as unconventional as they come.
