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DCMS give £50M to counter 'news deserts'. Interesting but odd Newsquest gets £125K grant but Nub News £0. £125K to excellent Bristol Cable but only £29K to Social Spider (their titles in photo). I hope latter can use to help expand to no-news Redbridge.
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The back of St George's, Bloomsbury on Little Russell Street. Designed by Hawksmoor & consecrated in 1730.
'We could be in Belgium, or anywhere dull like that,' said The (perennial) Tourist to me today, on her first trip to newly pedestrianised Oxford St (as it is now styled). 'It is dead without the buses & the noise. Pah!' She was right.
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Calls for City of London councillor to quit committee over 'deeply troubling' Lime bike role mylondon.news/news/zone-1-ne…
Sorry to hear it's PETA behind this.
I guessed it might have been Shrinking Pizza in a rearguard action against Big Chicken & who are eating their lunch - dinner & breakfast.
Shame reactions from passers-by missing. Maybe 'reminds me, I want some wings.'
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Shabana Mahmood announcement on Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) to extend wait, generally, to 10 yrs & add more restrictions is wrong
Anyone should be able to live with their spouse in UK, not preference given to high earners (over £50K!) Treat shop workers & surveyors the same
Moving goalposts on Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR)? More taking them down
Wait time for ILR for spouse:
1985: 1 yr / 2003 - 2012: 2 yrs / 2012 - now: 5 yrs / Future: ??
Min income from 2024: £29K p.a. Who's the govt to stop you living with spouse as you don't earn enough?
When someone got emigration boat from grinding poverty in Italy to Buenos Aires in 1908, rather than to New York, it made sense. Argentinian GDP per head could well shortly overtake the USA.
It was a bad mistake.
Where are such errors being made now? Emigration to the Gulf?
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Britain is running 10% fewer trains today than pre-COVID, yet ridership is up by 110%. This means more overcrowding (already bad in 2019) and less choice for passengers. The good thing? We can actually fix this quite quickly.
My feature in @RAIL: railmagazine.com/features-la…
ALT a graphic showing the level of available seat capacity into cities in England and Wales
