Do you mean where people use it as an adjective? E.g., ‘This house is very aesthetic’ where they mean ‘beautiful’?
London-based writer. Often climbing.
Do you mean where people use it as an adjective? E.g., ‘This house is very aesthetic’ where they mean ‘beautiful’?
True. You’d have to have a certain quantum of shittiness to even end up in his orbit. But once in it, things can always get worse.
Man, I hope she does this. It’s not something a future government would realistically undo.
It’s also not the kind of thing that would be obviously life-changing for anyone but it would be a permanent change for the better!
Bit boring, I thought. Last year’s was better.
I was basically happy with the content, but it needed more hope spots.
I thought we were gonna get away without some wanker this year, but there’s always some wanker.
I agree, just trying to find some logic in there!
God will save the King, us peasants have to save ourselves.
First time I’ve ever felt like joining the army.
GOD SAVE THE KING
Problem is that continuing not to invest = austerity. So if he doesn’t announce some new spending or at the very least something that will boost growth somehow, there will be more austerity. Something’s gotta give!
To try and get him to tone down the rhetoric, I guess? Or to reassure his own swing voters?
How deep does the rabbit hole go?
Oddly, it’s also true of me and my wife. Maybe I was on to something?
I thought that women drank tea and men drank coffee, because that was what my mum and dad did.
Yeah, it’s not exactly a fun walk even now. I normally go through Soho if I’m in the area even if it takes longer.
I read a while back that the average speed of a bus in central London is 3 (three!) miles per hour.
You are right that they can’t compete directly with online shopping, but that’s not why people go there. Studies have consistently shown that closing shopping areas to through-traffic is good for businesses, precisely because it makes them easier, not harder, to access. Shops don’t benefit in any way from hundreds of cars (or, in this case, buses and taxis) driving past them!
EDIT: Thought I should link to a specific study rather than just vaguely waving at them. There are many to choose from but this one is particularly interesting because it’s from the US, where they generally don’t have good cycling and public transport infrastructure, but it still shows benefits for businesses:
While we observed some mixed results, we generally found that street improvements have either positive impacts on corridor economic and business performance or non-significant impacts.
It’s important to note that nothing always works everywhere (‘some mixed results’, here), but the balance of evidence is in favour of at least trialling traffic reduction schemes in commercial districts.
Yeah, it’s a fair point. I think the downside of caps is that it feels like the article is screaming at you!
The Greens very much do run on nimby platforms, including their co-leader, mentioned in the article. And it is just deeply aggravating when they oppose green infrastructure for nimby reasons, whether it wins them votes or not.
Also, lots of words start off as acronyms and then lose that status. ‘Laser’ is a good example: originally ‘Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation’, but now always written in lowercase.
There used to be a very similar shop near me that was actually just a front for selling cannabis.