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Large SUVs and utes are 82% more likely to kill children in collisions- 44% more likely to kill adult pedestrians or cyclists. They damage our roads and add to air pollution, harming our health. There’s twice as many utes as tradies in Australia. We need remove the luxury car

Roald Dahl on Measles: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to

My sister is a former trauma surgeon and I was introduced to this fact years ago. The murder rate went down not for a lack of shootings but because we got much better at treating gunshot wounds. That's why the real question should be "what is your attempted murder rate." The

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram. 100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show. I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell. You

Fascinating piece by Megan Harwood-Baynes on how risk-averse British pension schemes are. The £73bn universities pension scheme has been delivering an insanely pedestrian *1.7%* return for its members over the past 5 years thetimes.com/article/1b7a1f…

i love how in january it gets colder and deeper into winter but anything warm and festive like mulled wine or christmas markets is banned and instead you’re encouraged to be as frugal and puritanical as possible until the sun rises again in march

Amanda, getting banished: ‘remember everyone, my house is your house.’ Mentally adding: ‘except you Jade.’ 😂 #Traitors #TraitorsUK

Gays in P.E. #TheTraitors

🚨 The clearest, most devastating summary of Brexit’s damage which answers every remaining excuse. Brexit caused a slow economic bleed: •GDP is 6–8% smaller than it would have been by 2025: worse than forecast. •Investment is down 18% compared to similar economies.

The Victorians loved the redwood. They planted them in the hundreds of thousands across the UK, and transformed the landscape for millennia into the future (giant sequoias can live 3000 years or more) There are more redwoods now, maybe 5x more, in the UK than in California, and

I have a Butternut Box code if anyone wants it, 65% off your first box: type T94 at butternutbox.com. I've been impressed so far! #mse #dog #food MoneySavingExpert Martin Lewis

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I think about this chart on public investment a lot lately.

this is simply unsustainable

The "British mind" truly is a masterclass in wanting to have your cake and eat it, too. They've spent years shouting from the rooftops that universities are bloated, inefficient relics that shouldn't see a single extra penny of taxpayer money. They mock students for taking on

We are now at 1136 new measles cases - in just the first 8 weeks of this year alone. A preventable disease resurging. This is an abject policy failure.

Ever time a city eliminate cars, it's wildly unpopular until *literally the next day,* and then everyone insists they were 100% for it all along.

Ban them The 218 cruise ships operating in Europe in 2022 emitted more sulphur oxides (SOx) than one billion cars, or 4.4 times more than all the continent's cars bbc.com/future/article…

omg this title, this paper