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- Open ended? – Digital by Default digitalbydefault.com
Generational change (for the worse)
- Online Safety Act Notes for Small Sites — Russ Garrett russ.garrett.co.uk
- Walk a mile to save £34 on an Edinburgh-London rail ticket independent.co.uk
- The Radical How options2040.co.uk
We think taking a new approach makes it possible to shift government from an organisation of programmes and projects, to one of missions and services. It offers even constrained administrations an opportunity to improve their chances of delivering outcomes, reducing risk, saving money, and rebuilding public trust. Brilliant.
- People first, always peoplefirsttech.org
We are sharing these recommendations to advocate for a practical and pragmatic approach to delivering change that starts locally, builds skills across the four nations of the UK, and makes public service attractive for a generation that wants to build a better, more equitable society.
- Yes, it can be hard to get a restaurant table. But it can be impossible if you’re a wheelchair user | Jay Rayner theguardian.com
My lunch with a disability access campaigner was an eye-opener. Even booking was a problem.
Nicholas Saunders was a counterculture pioneer with an endless stream of quixotic schemes and a yearning to spread knowledge – but his true legacy is a total remaking of the way Britain eats.
- Mini-Budget. Major Catastrophe. kamikwasi.tax
- The 30 best seaside towns UK to discover in 2022 | Rough Guides roughguides.com
- Footworks Barefoot Footwear Online Specialists Worldwide Shipping — footworksrunning footworksrunning.co.uk
- CoTech « Cooperative Technologists coops.tech
<blockquote>A network of ethical co-operatives providing technology, digital and creative services.</blockquote>
- Library of Things libraryofthings.co.uk
- The 50 best breakfast places in the UK theguardian.com
- The Slow Death of the University - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education chronicle.com
"Education should indeed be responsive to the needs of society. But this is not the same as regarding yourself as a service station for neocapitalism. In fact, you would tackle society’s needs a great deal more effectively were you to challenge this whole alienated model of learning. Medieval universities served the wider society superbly well, but they did so by producing pastors, lawyers, theologians, and administrative officials who helped to sustain church and state, not by frowning upon any form of intellectual activity that might fail to turn a quick buck." Terry Eagleton on good form.
- Recent Train Times recenttraintimes.co.uk
<blockquote>Helps you find the trains that arrive punctually and avoid those that are often delayed. See how much trains on your route are typically delayed by and plan accordingly.</blockquote>
- The hidden costs of renting in modern Britain opendemocracy.net
- Traditional treatment for depression is not always the answer theguardian.com
<blockquote>The bottom line here is that this idea would punish people for not accepting the route one version of how to combat an extremely complex and multi- faceted condition, one which experts are constantly labouring to better understand. </blockquote>
- Highland hideaways: 10 of the best Scottish escapes theguardian.com
- Stargazing in Scotland: a holiday where dark skies are welcome theguardian.com
- London’s Great Exodus nytimes.com
<blockquote>The property market is no longer about people making a long-term investment in owning their shelter, but a place for the world’s richest people to park their money at an annualized rate of return of around 10 percent. It has made my adopted hometown a no-go area for increasing numbers of the middle class.</blockquote>
- The bonnie banks of Loch Lomond by bike theguardian.com
<blockquote>The trail is now almost complete (bar a few final safety checks) and will be opened officially next spring, running for 15 miles from Inversnaid to Aberfoyle. Beyond that, there is a grander plan for a 90-mile east-west path from the start of the Cowal Way in Portavadie to Callander. As yet nameless, it should be finished in 2015 and will make a new alternative to the well-worn West Highland Way, which runs north-south.</blockquote>
- Scotland is going it alone – regardless of the referendum theguardian.com
<blockquote>The more influential ministers in the coalition ache above all to radically challenge the role of the state, to achieve the reverse of the 1945 Labour government. Remarkably, given that they rule in a hung parliament, they have found the space to pursue their radical ambitions. Few in England voted for a revolutionary overhaul of the NHS, the near privatisation of universities, a further decline in the power of local government, a framework for education that paves the way for a return to selection and the introduction of profit-making schools, but that is what they are getting. In their fervent disdain for the state as a mediating agency, ministers focus with special energetic intensity on areas over which they happen to have no powers in Scotland.
As a result Scotland becomes more markedly different than ever. In Scotland the NHS is spared the haphazard revolution in England. The education secretary, Michael Gove, is powerless to impose his resolute will on schools in Scotland and the same applies to his other more evangelical colleagues moving England rightwards. Without doing very much Scotland becomes more different because of what is happening in England. The limited powers handed over to the Scottish parliament are precisely the ones that partly protect it from the ideological mission of the Westminster government. </blockquote>
- Top 10 UK coastal walks theguardian.com
- Edinburgh: the ultimate literary city theguardian.com
<blockquote>Gentrification has adopted an exaggerated and accelerated form in the capital, hurting communities from Brixton to Belgravia.</blockquote>
- 36 Hours in Edinburgh - NYTimes.com travel.nytimes.com
- Gardenders' World: 2 for 1 Gardens to Visit, 2013-2014 gardenersworld.com
<blockquote>Thatcherism left Britain politically, economically and regionally divided, a state that was meant to be proud that it stood for something in the world again, even as Thatcherism warned that the state was the enemy of freedom and not to be relied upon. No one could bring in change of the shape, speed and size that Thatcher did, and not expect any flaws or problems to emerge. To say that she's responsible for the country's recent triumphs, but not for any of its woes, defies all logic.</blockquote>
- The joy of Essex | Rationalist Association rationalist.org.uk
- Routes www.RamblersRoutes.org ramblersroutes.org
- Great British walks | Travel | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
- Fancy Free Walks fancyfreewalks.org
Good idea, annoying PDF and KML execution.
- Britain's best bike rides | Travel | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
- Feast in the east | Visit England | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk