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Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain

#eccentricity #empire #landlord #pub #uk | Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?

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‘A world first’: Devon calls victory in 27-year war on termites | Devon | The Guardian

#animals #building #environment #history #insects #uk | <blockquote>Subterranean termite colony found under two bungalows in 1994 is declared terminated after ‘amazing cooperation’ of homeowners</blockquote>

1 year ago | View Shared by victor

The power of the pint: is it time to retire one of the world’s biggest beer measures? | Beer | The Guardian

#alcohol #beer #drinking #health #uk | <blockquote>A study suggested last week that adopting a two-thirds serve could improve public health. But is the pint really the problem?</blockquote>

1 year ago | View Shared by victor

Starmer may be the son of a toolmaker, but he speaks for a very different class – and that’s a problem for Labour | Dan Evans | The Guardian

#class #education #paternalism #politics #technocracy #uk

1 year ago | View Shared by victor

The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis

#economics #housing #policy #renting #uk

1 year ago | View Shared by victor

Socialist Imaginaries and Queer Futures: Memes as Sites of Collective Imagining from Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production on JSTOR

#memes #paper #politics #uk | <blockquote>Thomas Hobson, Kaajal Modi, Socialist Imaginaries and Queer Futures:, Post Memes, pp. 327-352</blockquote>

2 years ago | View Shared by victor

The Radical Design of PizzaExpress

#British #chain #food #interior_design #pizza #restaurant #uk | How one chain changed the way we eat. Words by Digby Warde-Aldam; Illustration by Sinjin Li

2 years ago | View Shared by victor

The ghost junction

#infrastructure #money #roads #uk

3 years ago | View Shared by victor

Boris Johnson Knows Exactly What He’s Doing - The Atlantic

#brexit #politics #portrait #uk | <blockquote> (Several of Johnson’s advisers agreed to be candid in exchange for anonymity.) In an early phone call with Joe Biden, an aide told me, Johnson said he disliked the phrase special relationship after the president used it. To Johnson it seemed needy and weak.</blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor

Super cubes: inside the (surprisingly) big business of packaged ice | News | The Guardian

#drinks #food #ice #longread #market #uk

4 years ago | View Shared by victor

The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple - BBC News

#bbc #history #uk | <blockquote>For a couple of centuries, the British were in an unlikely frenzy for the exotic fruit.</blockquote>

5 years ago | View Shared by victor

May ends her premiership as she started it: With the greatest lie of all

#government #politics #uk | <blockquote>Theresa May leaves Downing Street speaking of compromise and moderation - values she did noting to promote.</blockquote>

6 years ago | View Shared by victor

Against “sensible” politics | Prospect Magazine

#opinion #political_culture #politics #radical #uk | <blockquote>In spite of the fact most people think their own politics are "sensible," appeals to common sense are mostly about preserving the status quo—however broken it is</blockquote>

6 years ago | View Shared by victor

Postcodes.io

#api #data #geolocation #open #postcode #postcodes #uk | <blockquote>Free Postcode API for Addresses in Great Britain</blockquote>

10 years ago | View Shared by victor

Direct aid, subsidies, tax breaks – the hidden welfare budget we don’t debate | Politics | The Guardian

#capitalism #corporations #politics #tax #uk #welfare | <blockquote>Vast sums are handed out in corporate welfare, and official silence is skewing the debate, so the public don’t know where billions of their own taxes are going</blockquote>

10 years ago | View Shared by victor