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You could buy this book and read it, or just follow these skeets as the account starts again from the beginning. I’d recommend both.
The Phantom Tollbooth QuotesThere was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always.
Yet another way in which Mamdani is showing the way not just with rhetoric but with concrete steps. If only more politicians regarded business leaders and lobbyists as just another voter - with a story, interest and need as valid on the face of it as any other voter.
The Wall Street JournalNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Helpful analysis of the obstacles to getting the Caledonian Sleeper beyond London and into mainland Europe. I knew of the passport control issue, and could imagine tunnel capacity, but was less aware of the others. However, hopefully a feasibility study can crystallise this for politicians and 1/2
Jon WorthSee jonworth.eu/forget-it-th...
A 20th century Voynich. What a peculiar story. scienceblogs.de/klausis-kryp...
The Europa Redux Manuscript – a fascinating mysteryThis might be the cryptogram discovery of the year: a manuscript containing some 7000 illustrations, many of them with encrypted (?) captions. Can a reader make sense of these unusual artworks? Prof. ...scienceblogs.deHappy There Will Come Soft Rains Day to all who celebrate. (Especially those in Allendale, California.) short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
Fair enough, if the same licensing decision is applied to industrial farming and meat production (albeit I accept the judgement seems to be made on population stability not cruelty/ethics - so it’s not a clear cut thing). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scottish islanders refused permission to stage annual guga huntEach year hundreds of gannet chicks are killed for their meat on the uninhabited Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir.www.bbc.co.ukReally powerful thread - Tomasz says it how it is.
Tomasz OryńskiI am seeing more and more posts in places like Reddit from British people wanting to move to Poland and struggling to get a job. Oh, how the tables have turned. But I didn't want to talk about it but about why I don't predict many of them to be too succesfull. Why? Here is a thread for you:
Extraordinary that UEFA are the good guys in a dispute.
Scott HortonUefa says they have reason to believe that Trump, Joshua Kushner and Infantino hatched a corrupt scheme involving the privatization of Fifa, and they are suing for damages and the ouster of Infantino. They have issued an anti-spoliation letter today demanding preservation of documents..
What an utter waste of time and taxpayers’ money. Plenty room for two lanes of traffic and bike lanes. 4 lanes (including two for buses) plus a bike lane also not impossible.
Dave McCrawSimply love the reopened North Bridge, where Edinburgh Council took advantage of eight years of works to put active travel and pedestrians first
Grounds for cautious optimism here. A good quote about the link between the constitution and bread and butter equality issues, something reform campaigners don’t often make clearly enough. But the devil will be in the detail (eg scope and methodology). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Devolution plans strengthen case for written UK constitution, says BurnhamPM argues for codified model of decentralisation that would fundamentally change centuries-old workings of statewww.theguardian.com