According to this study, British infrastructure projects are pretty much the most expensive ON EARTH. https://x.com/sam_dumitriu/status/1694990887439233239?s=46&t=L9g_woCIqbo1MTuBFCK0xg (View Post)

Surely, in the UK, we talk about knickers rather than panties? Panties is one of those odd Americanisms only familiar to us from sordid US crime reporting, and unsavoury pornography. (View Post)

Lee-on-Solent, for example, has a fine prospect even if the beach is pebbly. But the architecture of Marine Parade is like Noddy Town as dreamt up by Barratt Homes. (View Post)

Spinnaker Tower is awful. Let’s build a tower, they said. But make it cheap, uninspired, and useless! Its sole benefit is to make the disgraceful high rise council blocks over in Gosport seem less do… (View Post)

The West has astronauts. The Russians have cosmonauts. The Chinese have taikonauts. Apparently the Indians have vyomanauts. (View Post)