Everyone laughed at Hitler in the 1920s. A century on, are we making the same mistake? | Adrian Chiles theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I'd prefer if Sunak went to live in Rwanda instead.

The Cutty Sark, Glasgow School of Art, Notre Dame and now the Børsen.

Why do so many major historic building renovations end in catastrophic fires?

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Since the start of 2022, around 32,000 people have died due to very long A&E waits based on these figures.

Brexit has mullered UK goods trade:
- both imports and exports hit
- down not just with the EU but also rest of the world
But bigger/wider effects than I'd have expected.

In 2023, less than 4.6% of all arrivals to the UK didn't have permission to enter the country first.

Most of those came as refugees.

With the next age bracket up including the menopause, it doesn't take a genius to imagine what consequences this has for the country's social fabric, birth rate, economy etc.

All because for at least a generation politicians thought inflating house prices was a vote winner.

As a young adult in 1997, the most common living arrangement was being in a couple with children. Today the most common is... living with your parents

I've just found out that Heathrow has a 'Chief Solutions Officer' and I'm starting to worry that job titles might be getting a bit silly again.

This is like saying it’s fine to terminate the Elizabeth line at Bond St because the Bakerloo line gets you to Paddington….

While the government's broken promise to abolish section 21 gets another year older, eviction cases in England are soaring and the courts are overflowing.
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Think of it as a no fault eviction notice Rachel

Spot on.

No one who acts as if racism against one group is less serious than against any others should be taken seriously.

If everyone is born equal then there can be absolutely no time or space for hierarchies of hate.

This is just sickening, UCLH & The Met should be ashamed for their worsening criminalisation of homelessness. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Oh, and a bonus chart that I think will fry a lot of people’s brains and break a lot of narratives:

For all the talk of six figure costs of college in the States, here’s how much debt graduates leave university with in the UK and US vs other countries

The result in absolute terms is this:

Non-graduates in the UK and US earn almost exactly the same, but graduates in the US now earn 35% more per hour than grads in the UK.

Some stats about railway electrification in Britain. (Thread)

Cracked tiles, wonky gutters, leaning walls – why are Britain’s new houses so rubbish? theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Please sign this petition to halt the government's plans to deliberately harm the railway's overall business case and make it difficult to build future schemes, at a time when decarbonising our transport networks is more important than ever.

😡Just take a moment to absorb this.

An entirely UNELECTED Prime Minister is selling public assets AT A LOSS in order to prevent a future ELECTED Prime Minister from reversing the decision to junk a manifesto pledge on which people actually voted. ~AA

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