Andy Burnham is just nibbling around the edges of cost-of-living, but meanwhile a huge number of flat owners trapped in the medieval leashold system face increasing costs, poor maintainence and difficulty selling their flats to younger people www.property118.com/leasehold-cr...
Leasehold crisis continues as thousands face mounting costsLeaseholders remain trapped by rising costs and are unable to sell their homes, despite the government’s Leasehold and Freehold Act.www.property118.comThis is really alarming. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... Having evidently decided that a full-on military invasion of Greenland would rouse too much opposition, Trump's fossil fuel cronies are doing his dirty work for him, moving in on drilling in an environmentally protected area and daring
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drillIsland’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drillingwww.theguardian.comThe heartbreaking cruelty of Republican congressman Max Miller, towards his own child and his wife. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Some people should not be allowed around children. And if so why do we allow them to be in our government making decisions that affect the lives of millions?
Sadism and a Blue BunnyNot everyone who has a child is fit to love them.www.theatlantic.comThis was my thought on reading the Guardian article today on e-scooter accidents (which mostly injure the riders, not people they collide with). There is now all sorts of handwringing about need for safety standards for e-scooters, but where's all the push to get child-killing SUV's off the road?
Gravel InfluencerPeople love to scream "whataboutism" when you point out that cars are still more dangerous than e-bikes/e-motos/e-scooters. But it's not whataboutism to properly contextualize the risk, especially when we are seeing a moral panic that is not commensurate with the threat posed by e-micro mobility.
So true. This has forced so many people into various data acrobatics to protect their data when crossing the US border.
Adam SerwerWrote about the border search exception: a massive loophole in the Fourth Amendment that allows border officials to search through your phone without a warrant, the exception provides an easy pretext for the Trump administration to target its political enemies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...