Category Archives: Links

Friday Links: No good news

Posted on September 29, 2023 by nicdempsey

It’s been another really depressing news week. A 15 year old got stabbed (boys are afraid girls will reject them, girls are afraid boys will kill them), Suella Braverman thinks all refugees and immigrants liars and criminals, which given that … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Entitled and Petty

Posted on September 8, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! This week a commentator on the radio said that the Government risked coming across as entitled and petty, I was surprised that they didn’t think they were already coming across as entitled and petty. The truth is the … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Crumbling Schools…

Posted on September 1, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Ministers face calls to explain delay in closing schools over concrete crisis. In the very early 90’s, at 6th form college, we had to have lessons in portacabins, they were not in great shape and I remember one … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Just before a Bank Holiday

Posted on August 25, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! It’s the end of August and there is a surprising amount of news for the silly season. Although, I seem to be all about housing and cost of living this week: Inverclyde named most affordable place to buy … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Fires, Flood and something like a Free Trade Agreement

Posted on June 9, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! We are (yet again) in a week where the news is not great. Well Donald Trump being indicted is pretty good news! But someone, probably the Russians have blown up a damn and flooded Kherson, the Canadian wildfires … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Judicial Review

Posted on May 26, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Too tired to cook. Too easy to open a packet. It’s not our fault we eat junk ‘In London there is no space at all’: the rise of self-storage as rents soar ‘You have no security’: the households … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Everything is terrible

Posted on April 28, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! It’s been a while and everything sucks, here are this week’s links ‘Losing your home is a massive thing’: how the climate crisis came to Norfolk ‘They are men … they do nothing’: inside the home lives of … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Yes, we have no tomatoes

Posted on February 24, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! ‘We have to pay more for food’: Britain’s biggest tomato farmer on the runaway costs of growing. It’s really hard to hear in the midst of a cost of living crisis but it’s true. We pay too little … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Another Nicola Gone

Posted on February 17, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! What happened during Scotland’s rent freeze? Landlords fought back My sympathy for ‘good’ landlords is at rock bottom right now. Rent controls and assured tenancies are the least renters need. I know the inhumanity of prepayment meters. Forget reform … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: The PM hates trains…

Posted on February 10, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! It’s been a week. There is a lot happening in the world, not much of it good. My favourite WTF moment came with the news that the Prime Minister flew from Dorset to London and then the next … Continue reading →

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