⚡️ Some countries that generated more electricity per capita last year than the 🇬🇧 UK (4,333 kWh)

🇵🇾 Paraguay (8,282 kWh)
🇸🇮 Slovenia (7,180 kWh)
🇲🇪 Montenegro (6,544 kWh)
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago (6,153 kWh)
🇧🇬 Bulgaria (5,980 kWh)
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan (5,808 kWh)
🇱🇾 Libya (4,445 kWh)

Why planning restrictions are the modern-day corn laws.

This is a must-read for anyone who thinks that because land is special (‘unique and fixed in space'), the laws of supply and demand don't apply to it.

housingcrisis.substack.com/p/the-planning…

Probably tried to set an alarm

Prior to the TCPA in 1947 private enterprise regularly built far far more homes than at any period after. 3% of stock annually would be around 810 thousand homes annually in the Uk. Build rates of 2% or ~ 600k homes annually is the norm in France and Austria.

Whatever you think of the actual candidates, mayors with a track record of delivery bucking national trends and out-performing their party is good for British politics.

A privately educated woman in her 20s explains why she steals bottles of kefir from M&S.

thetimes.co.uk/article/8efa41…

he's been reading England's Part O building regulations.

conducted a highly scientific peer-reviewed experiment and it seems like *monthly* GDPR cookie popup emissions are 68.5 times higher than the emissions from the BLOOM language model training run. much to think about 🙏🏽

She'll never get planning permission for that.

“I think the thick buttress of bureaucracy is the biggest problem' - Ryan Reynolds

“It's a lot harder to build in the UK than, I found, almost anywhere else in the world.” - Rob McElhenney.

All TV shows about running a business in Britain have at least one season on planning.