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runningproject
2026-05-22 20:52
Weeklyish Running update - Going steady
I did three pretty solid runs in the last week: A tempo park run at 24 mins A Monday easy run at a 6KM per minute pace, just under A Wednesday track session A Thursday easy run NB I am like the above days
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life
2026-05-21 16:48
Why AI Could Change What Matters for Big Brands
David Wighton wrote a piece in The Times recently, asking a question that’s not going away: what happens to brands when AI starts making our choices for us? For years, the giants—Coke, Nike, Apple, all
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cars
2026-05-20 17:53
On the backlash against Low Traffic Neighbourhoods...
Personally I love the concept of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods - creating more spaces for pedestrians and bikes and funnelling cars onto fewer roads should just make life more pleasant for everyone. Writing
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uk
2026-05-19 21:27
Profiteering on the Back of Public Need
Hettie O’Brien’s recent article in The Guardian focuses on a part of capitalism that most of us barely notice.... private equity firms snapping up everyday services like nurseries, care homes, student
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life
2026-05-18 18:29
Shoplfiting is out of Control...
Shoplifting has traditionally been treated as a low level crime that doesn't really matter that much, something businesses can just sort of scuk-up and a low level crime with not much of an impact. However
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pollutions
2026-05-17 17:50
A technological solution to plastic polllution...?!?
Everyday somewhere between 30-50K tonnes of plastic are dumped in our oceans. That's a staggering 11-12 million tonnes annually. Dutch inventor Boyan Slat, the founder of The Ocean Cleanup, thinks we can
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hivegarden
2026-05-16 12:57
Allotment update... waiting game and alien tomatoes?
So we had a great start to the allotment this year, compared to last year certainly. Just last weekend we managed to get a good 30% of it planted up.... We've got brassicas which a few days after this
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cent
2026-05-15 20:25
Surge Pricing Is Coming for Everything — And People Are Going to Hate It
The industry probably wants us to think of it as dynamic pricing, but I personally prefer the name surge - it's a slightly less polite sounding way of describing something we're all familiar with it and
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life
2026-05-14 16:24
Is Our Great Divide Really That Wide?
The Left in the UK seem to think that the UK is massively unequal and that wealth inequality especially is one of the root causes of most other social ills. However maybe increasingly inequality has been
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free
2026-05-13 19:31
Rethinking Free Trade Assumptions
There's been a strong free trade narrative around at least since Reagan and Thatcher, with the 'free' standing broadly for 'tariff' free - the neoliberal theory being that government interference in global
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china
2026-05-12 18:04
On Chinese Robots...
China is apparently now leading the way in robotics tech, so much so that it's changing the way even capitalism works! According to the International Federation of Robotics, China’s been the biggest market
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uk
2026-05-11 18:01
Turning Our Woodlands Into a Dump
George Monbiot pulls no punches in his recent Guardian column, “Turning our woodlands into a tip.” He takes a hard look at the mounting crisis of illegal waste dumping across the UK and points out just
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life
2026-05-10 19:47
Weekly ish Running Update - Best ParkRun Time in 6 years!
On it! 22.59 Park Run... So I headed off at a 4.40 pace for the first K intending to run the last couple of K faster if I could, but I ran it slightly faster at a 4.33 first K pace, and then check this
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uk
2026-05-09 19:27
A good couple of days for the Green Party, and the other one±
So it's a pretty radical shift in UK politics this week... With Reform gaining over 1400 seats and the Greens gaining over 300, with MASSIVE losses for Labour and also big losses for the conservatives
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uk
2026-05-08 20:06
The gold-plated problem with Infrastructure development...
People love to blame “red tape” for everything wrong with construction and infrastructure in Britain. Politicians keep promising that if they just cut a few regulations, suddenly we’d be building new roads
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uk
2026-05-07 18:15
Allotment about to go BOOM!
So we've had a good start with the sewing and early stage development of LOTS of plants for the allotment... Corn, Tomatoes and courgettes Which we are currently hardening off, probs put these in next
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uk
2026-05-06 18:49
On the Energy Crunch...
A lot of people these days feel just stuck in a cost of living crises, increasing energy costs aren't helping that. And it's difficult to see how the government can carry on helping in the face of global
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running
2026-05-05 20:26
Weekly ish Running Update...
I've just realised I've missed out one random inteerval session I did about 10 days ago, but the last three runs as follows: Hereford easyish 6K I wasn't in the mood for really slow running so I opted
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life
2026-05-04 15:36
Ahh The Snooker and May Bank Holiday!
So I did something proper self-indulgent this last week, well suited a bloke in his 50s - I watched somne damned Snooker, live from The Crucible, in Sheffield... It's a funny old game is Snooker - and
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aid
2026-05-03 20:01
On Labour cutting Foreign Aid...
Labour's developed a real reputation for flip-flopping on policy lately, and this is surely to its detriment.... Take the latest foreign aid issue. The latests policy decision is to dropping aid from 0.5%
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