Twitter community notes are going to be amazing when the election campaigns really get going. (View Post)

That’s what happens when you allocate 1/3 of government revenue to the military. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/rate-of-russian-military-production-worries-european-war-planners (View Post)

We think train prices are expensive because we compare them with the marginal cost of a car journey that doesn’t include the most expensive parts of owning a car (for most): depreciation, interest co… (View Post)

Incidentally, apropos earlier discussion about French suburbs: Jonathan Meades made a series “On France”, the third episode of which is entitled “Just a Few Debts France Owes to America” https://www.… (View Post)

Not really - I think British architects would have been perfectly well aware of the origins of the term. The problem (imo) is a combination of Brutalist design with Corbusian ideas about how building… (View Post)