The Week's briefing on young people who are not in education, employment or training (Neets) makes for gloomy reading. Around a million 16 to 24-year-olds, one in eight of the age group, are Neet, and

Robert Colvile has written one of those columns in the Sunday Times that's designed to make people who care about their town centres slightly cross. His argument is that the high street of old is doomed,

Daniel Hannan has been getting himself worked up in the Sunday Telegraph about the prospect of Andy Burnham's government bringing in a wealth tax. His argument, roughly, is that no country has ever made

The FT's Lex column argues that Shein should be understood as a social media company rather than a retailer — a gamified engine that keeps you scrolling and occasionally sells you a jacket, closer in spirit

Bringing buses under public control is a governance reform. What ails the bus network is a revenue problem. The two are related, but they are not the same thing, and pretending otherwise is how you end

So one of tonight's stories involved a puppet book and my thoughts strayed back idley to Rod Hull... I in fact found myself on the phone asking questions about Rod Hull... There as a certain question I

So I've reached the final week of my base phase, and into my build phase, so my running has changed a little - I've convinced Claude to let me run the Park Run every week as a tempo run, and one Octopus

So it's been a while since I last looked at my SL land stack, which I think is the way to go given the slow progress! Basically plan on and dont' check too often! The region has now got a total of 442

Kenan Malik, writing in The Observer, calls Arconic's Grenfell settlements an indictment of our times. He is right, but the phrase is almost too gentle. What the numbers describe is not a moral failure

A boat carrying 230 people arrived in Dover a few weeks ago, and the vocabulary arrived with it. Monster boat. Mega-dinghy. Crushed like sardines. Longer than a double-decker bus, with enough passengers

The Economist has an editorial on China's grip on the global oil market which treats the story as a problem: an autocracy has accumulated enough market power to move prices, conceals its intentions, and

There is a particular genre of business journalism in which a reporter is invited to a field, handed a hard hat, and shown a drone. The company in question then explains that it is doing rather well, actually,

Jargon is an annoying aspect of work, but more interesting than the irritation factor is some recent research on who reaches for buzzwords... A study published in Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision

Victim politics — that supposedly left-wing habit of organising identity around injury — is now thriving rather more vigorously on the Right than anywhere else... The traitor economy Consider the case

Sarah Ditum has a piece in The Times arguing that Britain should revive the public information film. Her prompt was telling off a young man for lighting a cigarette in a tinder-dry field during a summer

But it was deliberate, so that's OK! My last three runs: Tuesday Octopus... I headed out for 4 isk Ks easy and then 4* 300M - at 4.05 but I overdid it, according to Claude. I also did one warm up burst

Andy Burnham has to decide whether to approve two North Sea developments — the Jackdaw gas field off Aberdeen and the larger Rosebank oil field west of Shetland — after a court ruled that ministers must

Tom Tugendhat used his Telegraph column this week to point at something most of us have been comfortably ignoring: the world's grain trade is in serious trouble, and Britain is behaving as though this

Writing in The Times, David Smith looks at the British economy and finds it standing up rather well. The next quarterly growth figures wouldn't match the brisk 0.6% of the first quarter, he predicted,

Evening evening and happy September HPUD to one and all. I have just Powered up another 2.5K Hive to take me through that 300K HP barrier.... Looks nice huh?!? Do you love the game...? I mean honestly