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revisesociology

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Burnham's National Care Service: a great idea paid for with money that doesn't exist...?

Burnham's National Care Service: a great idea paid for with money that doesn't exist...?

I was reading The Week's briefing on Andy Burnham's plan to 'fix' social care, and while I've got a lot of time for the idea, the more I read about how it's actually going to be paid for, the less convinced

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shanibeer

BuzzParty Meet Hive!

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London Hive Meetup | October 2026

London Hive Meetup | October 2026

Valiant Hiveans meet up and have a good time.

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tumutanzi

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iFAST：值得拥有的英国银行账户

iFAST：值得拥有的英国银行账户

经实际使用，我发现iFAST Global Bank这个银行挺不错。它是一家英国持牌银行，隶属于新加坡上市公司iFAST Corporation。和其它英国银行（比如我一直在用的Santander）相比，它最大的特点是提供多币种银行账户和国际转账服务，可以持有美元、欧元、英镑、港元等多种货币，正如官方宣称：连接您与世界的英国数字银行。我关注它是因为它对中国内地用户的跨境资金管理有一些实际用途。

revisesociology

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Brexit has done "more harm than good"... so why is everyone still scared of the word 'rejoin'?

Brexit has done "more harm than good"... so why is everyone still scared of the word 'rejoin'?

So Andy Burnham finally stood up at a Labour conference and said Brexit has done more harm than good, which these days is 'brave' even though it's stating the obvious? The PM finally says it out loud To

cryptoyzzy

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Janni est son attaque magique

Janni est son attaque magique

Salut à tous, la troisième carte de mon deck, elle est très résistante et une attaque magique de 3. Je ne l'utilise pas très souvent, mais c'est une belle carte. L'adversaire est très fort mais il perd

revisesociology

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Weeklyish Running update... Final build block....

Weeklyish Running update... Final build block....

So my final build block - intervals, easy, Park Run (Temp +) and easy... Tuesday's intervals.. Still on the Octopus sessions, last one of these! Thursday's Easy.... Just nice and easy! Saturday's Park

livinguktaiwan

BuzzParty Meet Hive!

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London meetup 2026

London meetup 2026

Yesterday I met up with a few Hivers in London. This is my second meetup this year after Alicante in May. We met up at a local pub for lunch first where @shanibeer who organised the meetup, highlighted

adetorrent

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London Hive Meetup - I missed this stuff

London Hive Meetup - I missed this stuff

I was honoured to attend a cozy meetup with fellow Hivians in Central London on Saturday. I actually though the meeting happened last month but, thanks to @livingtiwanuk who reminded me last minute, I

revisesociology

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The minivan comeback, or the end of the SUV con?

The minivan comeback, or the end of the SUV con?

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

shadeflowersart

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Portrait with a sword. New sketch.

Portrait with a sword. New sketch.

So far it's just a pencil. Girl with a sword. A4 format. Just a drawing that you can't say anything about.

sdatoken

renewableenergy

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Britain found its clean-energy bottleneck: the grid

Britain found its clean-energy bottleneck: the grid

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

revisesociology

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Britain is as productive as France! (We just went on holiday)

Britain is as productive as France! (We just went on holiday)

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,

harveyword

Black And White

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#Monomad Street Photography –Windows and Legs

#Monomad Street Photography –Windows and Legs

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

revisesociology

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Labour's quiet immigration 'success': how much of it is actually Labour's?

Labour's quiet immigration 'success': how much of it is actually Labour's?

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

darth-azrael

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Byte: The Small Systems Journal (November 1980)

Byte: The Small Systems Journal (November 1980)

You had to be pretty hardcore to be computing in 1980. However, Byte was there to help you along. It covered all kinds of systems and much of the content was highly technical. The November 1980 issue includes:

revisesociology

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Weeklyish Running Update - Park Life...

Weeklyish Running Update - Park Life...

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 -

jompiy

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All You Have To Do is Start

All You Have To Do is Start

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

revisesociology

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The welfare bill: everyone wants to talk about the sick, nobody wants to talk about the pensioners

The welfare bill: everyone wants to talk about the sick, nobody wants to talk about the pensioners

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

revisesociology

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Paycation: England's new tourist tax is less scary than the hotel lobby claims

Paycation: England's new tourist tax is less scary than the hotel lobby claims

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

darth-azrael

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Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (489-492)

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (489-492)

All of the photos in this set were taken in the late 1960s, and all were likely taken in the Lansing, Michigan area

cryptoandcoffee

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Legacy Auto Brands In More Trouble As Latest UK Car Sales Figures For September Released

Legacy Auto Brands In More Trouble As Latest UK Car Sales Figures For September Released

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

harveyword

Black And White

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#Monomad Photography - Three shots of the National Theatre in London

#Monomad Photography - Three shots of the National Theatre in London

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

revisesociology

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More devolution needs more local news – but who's going to pay for it?

More devolution needs more local news – but who's going to pay for it?

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,

revisesociology

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Nationalising Rotherham's steel: industrial strategy or Meccano politics?

Nationalising Rotherham's steel: industrial strategy or Meccano politics?

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