8๏ธโฃ days remaining until the World Cup!
๐ โEchoes of an Italian Summer: Stories From Italia 90โ by @paul_grech helps readers relive the 1990 edition of the tournament.
Nigel Farage's work over the last 11 weeks broken down:
- Parliamentary votes registered (including on immigration): 0
- Violent racial divisions stoked: 1
England has some of the busiest airports in the world.
Check who owns them.
Heathrow โ global investment consortium
Gatwick โ VINCI, France / GIP-BlackRock
London City โ Macquarie-led, Australia
Bristol โ Macquarie-led, Australia
Birmingham โ Macquarie-led / West Midlands councils
Southampton โ AviAlliance / Canadian pension-backed
The runways are English.
The ownership isnโt.
In 1979 BT's CTO said: forget copper, build fibre everywhere.
Within six years Britain had more fibre per capita than any nation on Earth.
First wide-area fibre network? Hastings.
Then Thatcher killed it โ "anti-competitive."
Factories sold to Fujitsu & HP. Expertise shipped to Asia.
Korea & Japan carried on. We stayed on copper for 30 years.
Same story. Different technology.
The Giro Donne goes over Passo Tre Croci in the Dolomites today (quite hard). There was an important Italian military village there during WW1 for soldiers fighting on Monte Cristallo and Monte Piana. #TiTM#Giroditaliawomen
Reg Varney and ("I'll get you for that Butler!") Blakey take a break from filming On The Buses in old market square #Nottingham back in the day. #ThenAndNow@No1tingham
Landlord: Rent has gone up.
Businesses: Thatโs a natural part of doing business.
Suppliers: Materials cost more.
Businesses: Thatโs a natural part of doing business.
Worker: My labour costs more.
Businesses: Whoa, whoa... Letโs not get unreasonable here.