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A rich opportunity To The Daily Telegraph Should the rich set an example when the nation’s debts soar? Stanley Baldwin, the first Tory leader to use the phrase “one nation”, thought so. In a famous anonymous letter of June 1919, signed FST – he was financial secretary to the Treasury at the time – he …
Foreign cities are taking advantage of the crisis to re- think their cities. Mayors from Bogota to Budapest are exploiting the lack of parked cars by installing bike lanes in every likely spot. Athens is widening its sidewalks, enlarging public squares and banning traffic beneath the Acropolis. Melbourne is trying to put shopping , leisure …
A new report by the National Center for Homeless Education has found that the number of homeless students in the US is the highest in over a decade. The most recent data, recorded in 2017-18, shows that the figure of 680,000 homeless students reported in 2004-05 had more than doubled. The research measures the number …
At 10.30 last night one or more helicopters were flying at low altitude over our house (I counted 15 passes). Three rapid shots, sounding as if they came from an automatic gun of some kind, rang out on a nearby street. Crowds have apparently looted and destroyed shops in our neighborhood, including the two pharmacies …
Fake news may not be as widespread as thought. An analysis of the daily media consumption of people in the US found fake news made up 0.15 per cent of time people spend consuming media. The study found traditional news outlets may be a greater source of misinformation than fake news (Science Advances, advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/14/eaay3539 (New …
