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The first priority of the UK’s recently-elected Labour government is to “secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.” Although economists did not talk of growth until after the Second World War, it quickly became the favoured panacea of politicians. If it can make “everyone, not just a few, better …

There is nothing more satisfying when the weather is cold than a good old curry. This one is a simple recipe that had ground pistachio nuts as one of the ingredients and me being a tight git, everyone of those pistachios that are eventually ground up were deshelled by your truly.A labour of love most certainly but this is one of the richest tasting curries I have in my homemade …

On the advice of his friend, Dr. John Silence (Malcolm Hayes), Stephen Hubbard (Fraser Kerr) heads off to Germany on a convalescent holiday to the monastery where he studied as a child only to discover things are very different from how he remembers.One of the more pulpy of the Silence stories this breathless adaptation of Algernon Blackwood's 'Secret Worship', one of his John Silence stories, was one of several made …

A recent paper on housing, written with Mariana Mazzucato, outlining some ‘home truths’ about homes, and exploring the human right to housing alongside the rights of the environmentAny of the numerous so-called ‘housing crises’, at least those littered across the countries of the Global North, cannot be solved simply through that bluntest of tools: mass home ownership, based on the house as a financial asset, delivered predominantly by the private …

In my final post exploring the Royal Docks, I am looking at the King George V Dock, the last of the three docks that make up the Royals, and was opened in 1921. I have a copy of the book that was issued to commemorate the opening of the King George V Dock, and at the back of the book are some fold out paper maps, one with a view …

The Anne O’Byrne Centre that was part of the Launceston General Hospital was demolished in early 2024. The imposing building stood on the corner of a steep slope on the corner of Charles and Howick Streets, I always admired how challenging the steep site must have been to build on. I remember documenting the building around a decade ago when the facade was renovated, not this and the entire building …

My dad always complains about money so I put all of my tip money from work in a small cup where he often puts his own change in to save. [written on back] The post Sunday Secrets appeared first on PostSecret.

I have obsessed about this long enough, I think it's only fair I (and you!) get some content out of it. When I started writing this article, I was working on my P99 CONF slides. Those slides happen to include some bits of code. And because I'm a perfectionist, I would like this code to be syntax highlighted, like this: Rust codelet addr: SocketAddr = config.address.parse()?; let ln = TcpListeneraddr? …

November has been a month riddled with reading events, and although I’m happy with the amount of involvement I’ve had with these, I very nearly got to the end of the month without picking up on a really interesting one – Norway in November, hosted by Dolce Bellezza. Fortunately, an online mention of the event reminded me, and then I had the fun of deciding what I could read. A …

In Nigeria in November 2024, the National Commission for Mu­seum and Monuments 'marked the 75th anniversa­ry of the massacre of 21 coal miners at Iva Valley, Enugu, by the colonial masters. It could be recalled that 21 coal miners were shot dead in Enugu on Nov. 18, 1949, by the colonial mas­ters for agitating for better working conditions and improved welfare packages'.A monument to the massacre in NigeriaThe massacre took …

A couple of things from PAEC’s (Public Accounts & Estimates Committee) Inquiry this week in State Parliament. Trivial pursuits The Opposition decided to make a big fuss about the new X’Trapolis 2.0 trains not being able to use the Metro tunnel, as if this was a huge problem due to poor planning. It’s not. As I wrote back in June, Melbourne (like a lot of big city rail systems) has …

It’s that time of the week again — when I post the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy! The post Sunday picdump for November 24, 2024 appeared first on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

It’s out! Again! Well, actually it’s been out for a couple of weeks now, but today being the 61st anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who being broadcast, it seemed appropriate to write here today about the audiobook version of Pull to Open now having been released. It’s a strange thing, to listen to your own writing being read by an actor, in the person of Christopher Naylor here. …

Peanuts Worldwide and the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat (the newspaper of Charles Schulz' hometown) have launched "You Don’t Know Peanuts," the first official Peanuts podcast.Hosted by Melissa Menta, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Peanuts Worldwide (she's worked with the Peanuts crew for over 20 years), and David Templeton, an arts and entertainment journalist for the Press-Democrat, the new podcast is subtitled "The Untold Stories Behind the Greatest Comic …

Blitz is a powerful and somewhat disarming film about the longterm German bombing of London in 1940. One might be forgiven for expecting a kinder, gentler rendition of this horrific event because it’s told through the eyes of a 9-year-old boy. Guess again. Writer-director Steve McQueen spares us nothing in his recreation of the conditions before, during, and after each attack. If anything, they seem even more frightening than any …