June 2017

UK savings rate now at record lows... - @faisalislam

RBKC: also (with Westminster) killing pedestrians + cyclists: spot the hole in central London's 20mph area - TfL [PDF]

the UK should definitely get rid of the 1p and 2p coins, and maybe the 5p - Guardian

ten songs that could have been written for children - DavidGibb [via OlyShipp]

the Grenfell inquiry appears to be broken by design - @JolyonMaugham

"Let us for the sake of argument extend the Human Rights Act 1998's application to bears" - FreeMovement

the UK government doesn't care about Ireland, Scotland, or Gibraltar, why would it care about Hong Kong? - Guardian

a detailed analysis of the UK proposal for resident EU citizens - FreeMovement

committing illegal acts of infrastructure - KALW

short stories by Korean women - The Future of Silence + Wayfarer [my review]

"don't buy my kids more toys" - describes our situation perfectly - ScaryMommy

some children really take to chess - Guardian

Sainsburys is abandoning Fairtrade - Guardian

English headteacher has entire year 6 boycott SATs - SchoolsWeek

were mid-Victorians healthier than Britons are now? - NIH

"The fall in nutritional standards between 1880 and 1900 was so marked that the generations were visibly and progressively shrinking."

London is slowly getting proper bike infrastructure - SubversiveSuburbanite

leaving public health to local authorities is a really stupid idea - @BenGoldacre

"the EU remains unclear about what the British want from Brexit" - Guardian

the British don't know what they want yet either, or rather they want six different incompatible things

a history of Santorini's fantastic Atlantis Books - VanityFair

obituary for ex-Spanish novelist Juan Goytisolo - Guardian

Theresa May is no Thatcher, let alone a Robespierre - NYROB

£400,000 of dark Brexit money was channeled through the DUP - IrishTimes

the privatisation of English water - LRB [via @lizbatty]

do the latest anti-hepatitis-C drugs actually work? - Guardian

a Coombe Hill walk - OxfordBlog

Australia's richest union - MichaelWest

the EU can't save Britain - OxfordBlog

an arms-race in detecting fraudulent data in clinical trials - Anaesthesia

Ernest Hemingway, male impersonator? - NYROB

Trump is really a Russian oligarch - WP

"He has never shown any interest in real policy debates or political ideas, just in whom and what he could buy."

what really happened in Tiananmen Square 28 years ago - Nation

piling on more anti-terrorism laws won't help - @davidallengreen

Japan has a word for "death from overwork" - BBC

why nagging children never works - TTL

a new Studio Ghibli theme park! - LWLies

school spending will fall by 7% under the Conservatives - Telegraph