climate change
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We’ll need a bigger boat this time
You know you’re in trouble on an English train when they start handing out tiny bottles of water. Such was the case on a rainy Sunday afternoon at York Central. My train home was on time until, two minutes before it was due, it wasn’t. An announcement: “for the attention of passengers on platform 3:… Read more
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‘Inequality in our society still exists’: a dazed wander around Gunwharf Quay, Portsmouth
I get so bored when I’m ill. All of us internet users fall down terrible rabbit holes from time to time, and yesterday evening I found myself looking at terrible restaurants in rural Pakistan via google customer photographs. What’s the opposite of a roadside eaterie near the Kashmiri border? Land Securities Properties Ltd would like… Read more
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Cycling in Oxford: LTNs, active travel, and all that jazz
I returned from Oxford this week, saying an emotional farewell to a cat who will have already forgotten who I am. While I was there, the cat’s owner lent me an old Dawes road bike, which I used to pootle about the place and explore the place, with its river meadows, dreaming spires, and future… Read more