June 2023
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Britain is a bad country to be poor in; its child poverty is particularly shocking -
Guardianthe average height of five-year-olds is actually dropping
humans do production line factory work to train AIs -
VergeBrexit the UK fishing industry -
PoliticoCommittee on Climate Change: the UK needs to halt all new road building -
Guardianstop destroying footways: a pedestrian manifesto -
Oxford Blogmore evidence on induced traffic -
TAPASWoven Sounds: a documentary on Iranian weaving -
Roots Revival [YouTube]why the past is always a Golden Age -
Nature"our studies show that the perception of moral decline is pervasive, perdurable, unfounded and easily produced"
drought is coming for southern England -
Guardian"the bigger wins are to be found in changing water company practices through regulation, and incentivising new farming practices through education and compensation"
self-driving Teslas are eight times more likely to kill someone, per kilometre, than human drivers -
Prospectthe Earth spent a billion years with a 19-hour day -
PHYS ORGcar reduction is necessary, electrification isn't enough -
Yale Climate Connections"Wales [is an] example of what politics can be like at its best, which is real leadership, rather than just doing what you think is going to be easy"
Amsterdam starts implementing a circulation system by closing Weesperstraat -
Amsterdam [in Dutch]the Republic of Ireland is providing medical support to the United Kingdom -
Irish Timesacademic freedom and the gender critical movement -
Grace Laverythe Falklands War and Dr Jolly -
Articlecycling on the rise in Sydney (or at least central Sydney) -
City of Sydneyeveryday life mixed up with violence in rebel-held Myanmar -
Guardianthe case for an Oxford-Eynsham-Witney-Carterton railway line -
Oxfordshire [PDF]the estimated cost of Brexit: 5.5% of GDP, or about £1800/year to the median household -
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