This graph goes a long way towards explaining why British houses look so cheap and are such low quality, even though they're expensive to buy.
They are, in fact, built cheaply.
If we continue down this route, soon women will be allowed to vote, and the young men of our nation will prefer to join them at degenerate jazz socials instead of following the example those fine German youths
Early start for the Leeds to Nottingham train. This service connects the West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and East Midlands conurbations which have a combined population of £6.3m and 3 core cities along a 70 mile corridor. The journey time is around two hours. Ave speed: 36mph 🧵
@Layo_FH I've lived in blocks of flats in both Leeds and Manchester which I knew to be completely full that people assured me, they promised me, they insisted, were empty. Even after I said I lived in them and knew they were full.
Tokyo has a higher % of empty homes than Burnley! The sheer lack of empty homes in the U.K, particularly in our urban cores, is a big hot flashing sign that WE HAVE A HOUSING CRISIS.
Just saw this exchange on Reddit and chose to view it as when a character in a film is dying and the other person is describing the beautiful future they were going to share.
Passengers between Oxford and London have a couple of minutes of their lives wasted while Oxford Tube coaches turn off the motorway to stop at a rural stop in the middle of nowhere to qualify for a fuel duty rebate. Tax distortion in action.
This thread is garbage. Meaningless, badly-researched, incendiary dross.
The author is ignorant about maximum sentences.
Ignorant about Sentencing Guidelines, which judges are required to follow.
Ignorant about the facts of these cases.
With a dollop of conspiracism on top.
You destroyed a library. It was MORE than a library, it was a food bank, a source of heat for people in the winter, a place for kids from low income families to use the internet, or do their homework. Why destroy something so vital? Yeah you’re so patriotic guys.
I held my nose and dived deeply into Thames Water's murky accounts. Here's the result. Coppola Comment on Thames Water and its dividends: where has all the money gone? #longread
cc: @FlipChartRick
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Another successful 4 year campaign to prevent an existing warehouse being used as a warehouse. Please help me my economy is dying.
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The 'empty quadrant' is one of the most replicated findings in housing research.
There expensive cities that don't build. There are cheap cities that do build. And there are no cities that build lots of housing and still see very high housing costs.