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- Today's #wearwatch entertainment is brought to you by canoeists frantically rowing against the tide :) http://t.co/ibQvGfQ8 2 hours ago
- Brill map from @centreforcities comparing unemployment in UK cities internationally. Newcastle is equiv of Estonia. http://t.co/rkNgU1RJ 4 hours ago
- Well, #eurocrash was an hour of national stereotypes I'll never get back :( 17 hours ago
- Woah! What's left of the SDP want to pull out of Europe...?!? *That's* ironic: http://t.co/42uvHnBS 18 hours ago
- New sign in window of one of those shops that buy old clothes - "We buy books - 5p a kg". #Depressing 23 hours ago
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Madrid here we come…
Confession: I’ve never been to Spain. It’s never really appealed, perhaps because I don’t like the heat, because I’m not really a beach holiday kind of person, and also because I prefer places a bit more off the beaten track. … Continue reading
I’ve bean to the International Coffee Organisation
One of the small perks of my day job as a housing policy wonk is that I’m occasionally asked to speak at various conferences and events. Yesterday was one such day and I found myself on the 6.41am train to … Continue reading
Weather with you
I’ve been boycotting The Guardian since they saw fit to print Polly Toynbee’s frankly disgraceful rant about David Laws back in May (a boycott in which I’m joined by at least two government ministers, I learnt last week at conference … Continue reading
Why I’m so glad Ed won
Young, personable and a superb baker, he was always going to be in the final two, and I’m so pleased he won. But enough about Edd Kimber‘s win in the Great British Bake-Off this week. I was also pretty glad that … Continue reading
Not great news from Sweden for liberal parties in coalition with ‘modernised’ Tories…
‘Modernised’ leader of centre-right party forms coalition with liberals to defeat a centre-left government that has been in power for over ten years. Sounds like the 2010 UK General Election, right? Well, it was also the story of the 2006 … Continue reading
