Huw Sayer

Alongside this, governments should also perhaps take a more active interest in their construction sectors. Building more stuff - homes, infrastructure, storage facilities - should help bear down on the cost of living over time. Avoiding labour shortages and bottlenecks in the construction industry should make all of these investments more affordable, and limit price shocks from inflation in construction costs. Investing more in construction skills is the most obvious policy priority here, but providing a smoother, more predictable stream of demand to the industry could also help.

While I’m here, plug for my theory that governments should take a more active interest in the size of their construction industries if they want to bear down on the cost of living

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Huw Sayer on LinkedIn: The pothole crisis is costing £14.4 billion a year in economic damage in… Unless the government starts fixing the basics (roads, rail, public transport, education, health) the economy will continue to struggle. Poor infrastructure…

Chimes with my 'Pothole theory of everything' (they even affect the price of homes).

Poor quality roads mean people opt to move closer to work to shorten horrific journeys (bus, car, bike, foot), creating property hot spots.

Fix potholes and build more homes.

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The above might interest you @nor.dev 😊

Read more of Dom's thoughts on speaking at conferences and the benefits at:

https://norfolkdevelopers.com/posts/2022-06-14-facing-the-fear

The "corridor conference" is one of the best reasons to attend an in-person conference!

Talks, ultimately, "you can watch most of those on the internet". Engaging with both speakers and delegates on the talk though... there's no better place!

Inspired by a Tim Urban post, I decided to ask an AI about the date of the 'singularity' - we had a fun and interesting conversation.

My best advice to moderate politicians everywhere who want to defend democracy: move fucking fast and fucking fix things!

"The old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." - Antonio Gramsci

Ministers to cut funding for performing and creative arts courses in England Gillian Keegan will also squeeze funding for programmes to widen access to higher education

Remind me, please. How much do the performing arts earn for the British economy, from films, TV and music to all genres of live performances, and of course tourism?

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So, generally, not good.

Part of a painting I did of a Patchwork Leaf-cutter bee. Its shiny compound eye, clear to see as well as its dark golden body hairs. So much fluffier than you think.

Do you fancy a weekend getting away from it all? If you do, why don't you sign up to my two-day bee painting retreat on the 13-14th April. 3 places have just become available. Bees and paints what a fab combination 🪲🐙🐡 www.newbreweryarts.org.uk/twoday-paint...

The Wittergraph is a parody newspaper.

Cambridge study reveals Britain industrialised earlier than thought Records reveal

"Norfolk was probably 17th Century's most industrialised county, with 63% of adult men in industry by 1700."

But it had deindustrialised by 18C "men in industry dropped to 39%, while share in agriculture jumped from 28% in the 1700s to 51%."

Perceived as softer targets ☹️

Oh that's lovely!

Rebuild went very well. Delighted with our new cockpit which gives us so much more storage

Yeah, no surprise but what do they get out of it? Why does it matter to them?

Power, control, revenge.

Nick Cave on love, art and the loss of his sons: ‘It’s against nature to bury your children’ In the past nine years, the musician and artist has lost two sons – an experience he explores in a shocking, deeply personal new ceramics project. He discusses mercy, forgiveness, making and meaning

A "discussion impossible to have without having to join a whole load of nutjobs who have their problem with it" - Nick Cave sums up the problem with too many issues these days.

Fascinating interview.

Stand out comment.

I would probably skip the coyness and go for a straightforward headline like "RNC makes election denial a litmus test for new hires," but that's why I'm not a big city politics editor

No surprise. Run by men.

Meta and Google acting as judge and jury on women's reproductive information around the world. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I’m going to keep reposting this. Why would anyone want to exclude ice cream from the list of healthy foods
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HE HARVARD RESEARCHERS didn't ' hite he ke cam finding themed wrong. But the same paper had given them another result that they liked much better. The team was going all in on yogurt. With a growing reputation as a boon for microbiomes, yogurt was the anti-ice-cream-the healthy person's dairy treat. "Higher intake of yogurt is associated with a reduced risk" of type 2 diabetes, "whereas other dairy foods and consumption of total dairy are not," the 2014 paper said. "The conclusions weren't exactly accurately written," acknowledged Dariush Mozaffarian, the dean of policy at Tufts's nutrition school and a co-author of the paper, when he revisited the data with me in an interview. "Saying no foods were associated-_ice cream was associated."

It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it

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I think about this all the time, especially when I eat ice cream.

The sort of person they never tell you about in school!

Remarkable story – thanks for drawing attention to it!

Waterton Park, Walton, Wakefield, Walton - 1487471 | Historic England List entry 1487471. Grade II Park and Garden: Waterton Park, Walton, Wakefield. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

More on the amazing Charles Waterton here

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