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This is nuts.
It will cost Chris £15,000 to replace two rotting windows.
The windows themselves only cost £5,000. So, why so expensive?
Answer: Chris needs to get approval from Westminster Council and the Building Safety Regulator.
Sam Dumitriu
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Sam Dumitriu
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- Campaign against climate change by refusing to pay for low-carbon public transport.
00:00 - Wait let me get this straight, statisticians who can’t predict a single coin toss are now telling us how many times heads will come up (to the nearest 50) if we flipped a coin 10,000 times? 🤔Wait let me get this straight, people who can’t predict the weather 24 hours in advance are now telling us what global temperatures will be in 10 years? 🤔
- There is something deeply wrong when a law passed with cross-party consensus and endorsed by Britain's most trusted charities has made it impossible to run an internet forum for hamster owners.
- Britain's productivity "puzzle"
Foundations: Why Britain Has Stagnated. A new essay by @bswud, @SCP_Hughes & me. Why the UK's ban on investment in housing, infrastructure and energy is not just a problem. It is *the* problem. And how fixing it is the defining task of our generation. ukfoundations.co - At one point in this article, the MP complains that the village pub is closing due to footfall.🏡 How Labour is destroying the British village Plans to build 170 homes on fields between the town of Flitwick and Steppingley were vehemently rejected by more than 5,000 locals 👇 Read more: telegraph.co.uk/money/property…
- London's Metropolitan Police have objected to the opening of a new jazz bar in Covent Garden because criminals might target drunk jazz fans leaving at 1am. Let's sack the person at the Met whose job is to object to planning applications and put the money into tackling theft.
- Matt Yglesias on the fundamental problem with nuclear regulation.
- Is Britain getting a bad deal? @Ben_A_Hopkinson and I looked at 242 infrastructure projects across 14 different countries. Our conclusion? It costs more to build new tram systems, railways, and roads in Britain than almost anywhere else in the world. 🧵
- If you have graduated from a top global university then you will be free to move to the UK without a job offer under the new 'High Potential Individual Visa'.
- A Guardian columnist argues that widespread air-conditioning is 'philosophically problematic' because 'the screaming urgency to tackle the collective issue of a world on fire can recede slightly.' She has an AC unit herself, of course.
- We cannot build a new nuclear power station on what experts believe is the best site for it in Europe because of its impact on the Welsh Language and an arctic tern colony. There is no better case for planning reform.
- Apple should put some kind of GPS tracker in every mobile phone. Imagine if you could just show the police where your phone has been taken. Phone theft would be a thing of the past.Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley and @MayorofLondon have called on the mobile phone industry to play their part to help tackle the rising number of robberies in the capital. Figures show that mobile phone crime is driving the rise in robberies and thefts in the capital.
