Thought for the day
“What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?” Bertrand Russell
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Are the British selling too many homes to foreign investors?
Everyone agrees that “Britain’s housing problem is one of supply and demand. If only they could build more homes, the crisis would ease. But it’s not that simple. For instance, in London new flats are going up all the time, yet housing remains in chronically short supply because so many properties – old and new, …
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Addictions
A letter to a Washington Post agony aunt deplores the fact that the writer’s partner is obsessed with her cellphone and ignores him constantly while they are together, head down, searching the web, sending texts etc. All protests are ignored; the lady is hooked. If it were not the cellphone it might well be painkillers, …
Surprise! Surprise!
Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing Conservative Political Action Conference. Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the …
Thought for the day
Back in June last year The Times in London gave the following statistics: Almost 60 million people around the world have been driven from their homes by war or persecution. About 14 million people were displaced last year alone, with the Syrian civil war the single biggest cause. Half of the displaced are children. Since …