The streaming of online pornography produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as the whole of Belgium, according to a new report by the French think tank The Shift Project. Its researchers found that the energy required to stream online videos is responsible for the emission of 300 million tonnes of CO2 a year – …
The American Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it will resume capital punishment for the first time in nearly two decades. Only three federal executions have taken place since 1988, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. All five of the death-row inmates named in Thursday’s release were convicted for the murders of children. …
To The Times Nick King is right to point out that “small and family businesses make up 99% of the UK’s business population and create over three-quarters of new jobs”. Moreover, most of these businesses are also domestic-only and therefore do not trade with the EU, yet are still bound by its restrictive regulatory regime. …
I remember the cheese of my childhood and the bread that we cut with a knife, When the children helped with the housework, and the men went to work, not the wife. The cheese never needed a fridge and the bread was all crusty and hot. The children were seldom unhappy and the wife was content with her …
From The Times. 12 July 2019: “Please beware. There may be nudity. Or loud noises. Or cigarette smoking” “Theatre productions issue all sorts of health warnings to ticket buyers these days. But London’s Donmar Warehouse has gone a step further: it is protecting audiences from any possible distress by giving detailed information in advance about scenes …
