Live while you are alive
The Nordic Choice hotel chain announced this week that it has removed pay-per-view pornography from its 171 establishments – and in its flagship hotel, contemporary art videos will be shown instead. The chain’s owner, Petter Stordalen, Norwegian businessman and philanthropist, said he had decided on the change after becoming involved in Unicef’s campaign against the …
According to new research, using Facebook makes people feel less happy and less satisfied with their lives. The research involved recruiting 82 Facebook users and tracking their emotions over time using questionnaires that the participants, prompted by text messages, filled in five times a day. Analysis of these questionnaires revealed that the more a person …
Seven primary school pupils in England have tipped the scales at more than 20 stone (280 pounds!), according to official statistics. Among the seven – who were weighed between 2006 and 2012 for the National Child Measurement Programme – was an 11-year-old boy measuring 4ft 4in tall, and weighing just shy of 24 stone. (The …
The French see their country as a wonderful land that everyone wants to come to. It isn’t. According to journalist Felix Marquardt, it’s “a decrepit, overcentralised gerontocracy” that the young people of France should get out of as soon as they get a chance. Why stay in a land that for 30 years has tolerated …
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Deregulation has cost the public dear in a host of countries ever since Thatcher invented it and sold the idea of immutable monopolies to all and sundry. Even the World Bank fell for the stupid idea. It was one of the biggest scams of the 20th Century. Politicians have since stopped talking about breaking up …
