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I was reading in The Week that the humble minivan is making a comeback in America, and maybe this is really a story about people finally noticing they've been had. For years the minivan has been the least

Britain found its clean-energy bottleneck: the grid. The UK government has announced Great British Grid, a new publicly owned body within Great British Energy that can invest in electricity network

Chris Giles has some cheerful news in the FT: Britain is apparently far less useless than we thought. For fifteen years economists have scratched their heads over why UK productivity growth collapsed,

Notes I've been stood up for breakfast - again, and worse still he won't ever walk to the office with me - not matter it's a chance to take some photos along the way, the canal boats of Paddington most

Lionel Barber, writing in the i, reckons Labour has one striking achievement it never shouts about: it has got immigration under control. Net migration is down more than 80% from its 2023 peak and could

Three pretty standard classic runs in the last week, just my routine ATM really.... All around the same Park! Saturday Park Run.... It was another beautiful day - with a black history month takeover -

Doing what you don’t feel like doing. The most popular two formats, by far, in my online shops are the 30 x 24 inch oil on canvas paintings and the A5 size (21 x 15 cm) oil pastel drawings, so these are

This week's The Week ran a briefing asking whether the welfare bill is out of control. It's a decent roundup, but it includes a shaded box titled 'Perverse incentives', and you can pretty much guess which

At some point in the next few years you might book a couple of nights in an English hotel and notice a new line on the bill. The government has announced that mayors in England will get the power to charge

source BEV = Battery Electric Vehicle HEV = Hybrid Electric Vehicle PHEV = Plug In Hybrid Electric Vehicle The latest UK vehicle registrations offers some interesting insights and gives a clear indication

This building if 50 years old, which is old, like really old, like a whole lifetime of old, and lifetime that has seemed both incredibly long and incredibly short all at the same time. But you likely want

If more decisions are going to be made locally, someone needs to be watching the people making them. Back in the 1980s, Britain had around 1,600 local newspapers employing tens of thousands of people,

The government is buying another steelworks. Having already taken British Steel's Scunthorpe blast furnaces into public ownership this summer, it's now working towards acquiring Speciality Steel UK, the

Santander is offering £240 to eligible switchers — here’s what you need to do before the 7 October deadline.

I tested Ribbon Rewards with my real rent after first trying a 1p payment. My rent was £675… I accidentally sent £680. 😂 The good news? The payment reached my landlord successfully. Here’s what happened,

source UK Residential Flat Market Is Dead Due To Over Regulation And Rising Service Costs Which = No Mortgage Yesterday my brother received the news the buyer of his flat in Reading was pulling out of

Andy Burnham's answer to the housing crisis is to build more council homes. Fair enough. But Tom Calver in The Sunday Times asks the question that tends to get skipped: once they're built, who should actually

What goes into a typical order... Here’s a new idea for FREE ART FREES ART Put a free oil pastel drawing in with every order. Can’t believe I didn’t think of it before. The drawing can be of whatever they

Katie Prescott in The Times wants us to feel for people stuck on gardening leave. On the face of it, being paid in full for one, two or even three years to stay at home sounds like a dream, but many on

Remember Forest Gump? He seemed to be everywhere when anything of significance in history was happening. The same might be said of Sidney Reilly, the eponymous character in the British TV limited series,