While I’m here, plug for my theory that governments should take a more active interest in the size of their construction industries if they want to bear down on the cost of living acjsissons.medium.com/what-can-gov...

Read more of Dom's thoughts on speaking at conferences and the benefits at: https://norfolkdevelopers.com/posts/2022-06-14-facing-the-fear

The "corridor conference" is one of the best reasons to attend an in-person conference! Talks, ultimately, "you can watch most of those on the internet". Engaging with both speakers and delegates on the talk though... there's no better place!

Inspired by a Tim Urban post, I decided to ask an AI about the date of the 'singularity' - we had a fun and interesting conversation.

My best advice to moderate politicians everywhere who want to defend democracy: move fucking fast and fucking fix things!

"The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." - Antonio Gramsci

Remind me, please. How much do the performing arts earn for the British economy, from films, TV and music to all genres of live performances, and of course tourism? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Do you fancy a weekend getting away from it all? If you do, why don't you sign up to my two-day bee painting retreat on the 13-14th April. 3 places have just become available. Bees and paints what a fab combination 🪲🐙🐡 www.newbreweryarts.org.uk/twoday-paint...

"Norfolk was probably 17th Century's most industrialised county, with 63% of adult men in industry by 1700." But it had deindustrialised by 18C "men in industry dropped to 39%, while share in agriculture jumped from 28% in the 1700s to 51%."

Rebuild went very well. Delighted with our new cockpit which gives us so much more storage

Yeah, no surprise but what do they get out of it? Why does it matter to them?

A "discussion impossible to have without having to join a whole load of nutjobs who have their problem with it" - Nick Cave sums up the problem with too many issues these days. Fascinating interview.

I would probably skip the coyness and go for a straightforward headline like "RNC makes election denial a litmus test for new hires," but that's why I'm not a big city politics editor

Meta and Google acting as judge and jury on women's reproductive information around the world. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I’m going to keep reposting this. Why would anyone want to exclude ice cream from the list of healthy foods ?

It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it web.archive.org/web/20240122...

I think about this all the time, especially when I eat ice cream.

Remarkable story – thanks for drawing attention to it!

More on the amazing Charles Waterton here historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

Hats off to pioneering environmentalist Charles Waterton Love the house on the island. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Hats off to pioneering environmentalist Charles Waterton Love the house on the island. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Revolution Bars in secret talks about sale and mass venue closures | Business News | Sky News news.sky.com/story/revolu...

Reporting on climate change is awesome because the people who think everything else is a conspiracy will say there’s no evidence besides the oil company memos that say like “make sure you lie about this, so we don’t make less money”

"After more than a decade of austerity, British five-year-olds are a full centimeter shorter now than they were in 2010, and they are becoming significantly shorter than children in other countries." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Winter shadows in the cathedral cloisters

Pressure that the Ukrainians should absolutely ignore - especially when the US has stopped supplying them with weapons. Ukraine needs to identify every Russian weakness that it can exploit, & hit it as hard as it can. This is a war Ukraine has to win, for its own sake & for the security of Europe.

One of my crunchiest enviro opinions is that everybody should stop using gas-powered leaf blowers AND lawn mowers. The leaves are fine, chill. Lawns are unnatural monocultures that suppress biodiversity. Let 'em grow, or replace with native plants, or if you gotta mow, get a manual reel mower.

Not just the Garrick Club. Foreign Office officials may wish to reconsider their membership of the Travellers Club, which still doesn't admit women. Current British ambassador to Japan is a woman and many other ambassadorships past and present increasingly female. 1/2

Turkish central bank raises key interest rate to 50% as inflation soars

Makes sense if the lifeboatmen are actually in the boathouse before the storm arrives!

Love this green horse statue - seriously spooky.

Interesting position for the lifeboat house. Makes sense there today, but would have taken a while to get out there then? By boat?

The Lodge vanished from OS maps between 1838 and 1904 it seems.

Maybe a rather unproductive spot? 'Bugger all' > 'B- all' > 'Bob 'all': perhaps sanitised for the map reading gentry?

Sunrise 🌅 at 0608 Sunset 🌄 at 1800 Almost 12 hours of daylight. Loving the natural variation in our self seeded primulas. #Norfolk #Garden #springtime 🌱🧑‍🌾🦋🏡

For no particular reason, Wells Harbour from James Wyld’s map of 1838 (railways added at a later date).

The UK has a new king!

USA Democracy under threat from Christian Nationalists. Supporters have (among many other things) called for "an end to no-fault divorce and abortion and for reduced access to contraception." They have also said they consider giving women the right to vote to be "a bad idea". You've been warned.

In my innocence, I thought Project 2025 was just about firing the qualified civil servants so that the federal government would fail, and with it the economy. I hadn't realized there was a Christofascist angle. buckscountybeacon.com/2024/03/shoc...

Ukraine is the canary in the coal mine for democracy.

This is a terrible and significant story - not just for South Asia but for India's massive diaspora, which is rising in power & influence worldwide. I'm not sure Western governments can ignore the India problem much longer. bit.ly/43e0ebY

Musk, rattled, going on the attack against @bsky.app Well done Team, traction gained and some free advertising to boot

Make no mistake: Ru will go for Kyiv, Odesa, regime change, and occupation again as soon as it sees it as militarily feasible.

One thing you learnt at Oxford (even if you weren’t in the Union) was how to speak without much knowledge. www.ft.com/content/85fc...

Want to work @ The Economist? This is how I started: apply here, and see what happens. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Fucking hell irr.org.uk/article/bord...