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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

Dominic Lawson, writing in the Telegraph, thinks taming the welfare bill will be Andy Burnham's toughest challenge. According to this figures 53% of us live in households that receive more from the state

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,

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

Happy HPUD everyone, into October and it's usually getting cold, but not this year! I just added another 1K Hive to the pot, and this month I've added around another 6K, not quite up to my usual standards,

I had mostly some slow runs over the last week, had a slight niggle in the old left thigh so took it easy until today, when I felt fine, thigh fine! Last Tuesday ... A nice gentle around the town in Hereford,

Politics in the rich world, says the Economist's Schumpeter columnist, is mostly about promising to make the economy look like it did decades ago. Now Silicon Valley is at it too. Elon Musk's Tesla Diner

David Smith in The Sunday Times makes a neat point about Chancellor John Healey's first Budget. The fiscal rules he inherited from Rachel Reeves have got even tighter thanks to rising borrowing costs,

The Week's business pages recently asked whether Britain can stop the rot, as yet another batch of UK companies gets snapped up by overseas buyers. The emotional hook is Colman's mustard, a quintessentially

Peter Apps's latest argument, summarised in The Week, is that the government needs to rein in the spread of houses in multiple occupation. The gist is that investment firms are hoovering up cheap houses

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,

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,