Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “uk”

‘A world first’: Devon calls victory in 27-year war on termites | Devon | The Guardian

theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/21/a-world-first-devon-calls-victory-in-27-year-war-on-termites

Subterranean termite colony found under two bungalows in 1994 is declared terminated after ‘amazing cooperation’ of homeowners

The power of the pint: is it time to retire one of the world’s biggest beer measures? | Beer | The Guardian

theguardian.com/food/2024/sep/24/the-power-of-the-pint-is-it-time-to-retire-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-beer-measures

A study suggested last week that adopting a two-thirds serve could improve public health. But is the pint really the problem?

Starmer may be the son of a toolmaker, but he speaks for a very different class – and that’s a problem for Labour | Dan Evans | The Guardian

theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/03/keir-starmer-son-toolmaker-but-different-class-problem-for-labour

The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/19/end-of-landlords-surprisingly-simple-solution-to-uk-housing-crisis

Socialist Imaginaries and Queer Futures: Memes as Sites of Collective Imagining from Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production on JSTOR

jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11hptdx.17

Thomas Hobson, Kaajal Modi, Socialist Imaginaries and Queer Futures:, Post Memes, pp. 327-352

The Radical Design of PizzaExpress

vittles.substack.com/p/the-radical-design-of-pizzaexpress

How one chain changed the way we eat. Words by Digby Warde-Aldam; Illustration by Sinjin Li

The ghost junction

roads.org.uk/blog/ghost-junction

Boris Johnson Knows Exactly What He’s Doing - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/boris-johnson-minister-of-chaos/619010/

(Several of Johnson’s advisers agreed to be candid in exchange for anonymity.) In an early phone call with Joe Biden, an aide told me, Johnson said he disliked the phrase special relationship after the president used it. To Johnson it seemed needy and weak.

Super cubes: inside the (surprisingly) big business of packaged ice | News | The Guardian

theguardian.com/news/2020/dec/10/super-cubes-inside-the-surprisingly-big-business-of-packaged-ice

The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple - BBC News

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-53432877

For a couple of centuries, the British were in an unlikely frenzy for the exotic fruit.

May ends her premiership as she started it: With the greatest lie of all

politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/05/24/may-ends-her-premiership-as-she-started-it-with-the-greatest

Theresa May leaves Downing Street speaking of compromise and moderation - values she did noting to promote.

Against “sensible” politics | Prospect Magazine

prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/against-sensible-politics-independent-group-centrist-charlotte-riley

In spite of the fact most people think their own politics are "sensible," appeals to common sense are mostly about preserving the status quo—however broken it is

Postcodes.io

postcodes.io/

Free Postcode API for Addresses in Great Britain

Direct aid, subsidies, tax breaks – the hidden welfare budget we don’t debate | Politics | The Guardian

theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/07/direct-aid-subsidies-tax-breaks-the-hidden-welfare-budget-we-dont-debate

Vast sums are handed out in corporate welfare, and official silence is skewing the debate, so the public don’t know where billions of their own taxes are going