The Night of the Radishes (Spanish: Noche de Rábanos) is an annual event held on December 23 in Oaxaca, Mexico, dedicated to the carving of oversized radishes. #TheArchers

@andrewcities.bsky.social www.centreforcities.org/blog/taken-l...

Taken literally, growth in every postcode is the wrong test - Centre for Cities

Economic activity is inherently uneven, so ‘growth in every postcode’ is better understood as access to growth opportunities in every postcode.

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The more I think about it, the more the idea of treating couples who live together but choose not to marry like they've entered into a secret stealth marriage is an insult to all relationships - married and non-married alike. This week's New Statesman column www.newstatesman.com/politics/fut...

Treating cohabiting couples like they're married is a mad idea

A new campaign group wants to offer couples the same rights whether or not they've tied the knot

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In this idyllic woodblock print, Living National Treasure Kawase Hasui depicts the Pine Beach at Miho, with Mt Fuji in the background (Art Inst of Chicago, 1931)

Ageing Better's new NETER metric is designed to present a clear figure on the number of people aged between 50 and state pension age Not in Employment, Training, Education or Retirement (NETER).     This currently stands at 2.9 million NETERs in the UK.

In our latest guest blog, Lawrence Dunhill explores the uncomfortable lesson behind the rise of Make America Healthy Again. What can public health learn about storytelling in the social media age? https://bit.ly/4cxgGdx

Our wonderful small grants scheme is open again offering up to £10k to humanities and social sciences researchers. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 mont...

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#OtD 1 Sep 1911 during the Mexican revolution, peasant army leader Emiliano Zapata escaped from the military forces of Figueroa. Troops stormed the front gate of Chinameca, but Zapata and the local residents slipped out the back. Book & posters: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Accidental urban art. The outline of a climbing plant removed from a painted wall.

And I can see in principle why the Treasury is sceptical that save to spend projects save money, but we have tried not spending and that demonstrably does not save money.

‘Historically, some less common forms of heart attack, which evidence shows typically affect women far more than men, have been coded as less important, with treatment and care often worse as a result.’ Glad to see this being corrected www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

New heart attack definition promises better care for women

Leading cardiovascular health groups reclassify overlooked causes and introduce sex-specific diagnostic thresholds

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This is the most interesting thing I've read in years

Ed Conway@edconway.bsky.social · 2w ago

✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...

On Friday, September 4, Andrew Manze conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in a celebration of English music, including Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 9 & Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, with its shimmering clouds of strings. Details 👇

Vaughan Williams’s ‘Fantasia’ and Symphony No. 9

Andrew Manze conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in a celebration of English music, featuring works by Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten

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This looks like another one for the #devowatch Team. You cannot both want meaningful devolution and abhor postcode lotteries. Discuss.

Heidi Alexander MP@heidialexander.bsky.social · 3w ago

We're lifting restrictions on disabled bus passes so they can be used to travel for free 24/7. We're putting an end to the postcode lottery, so disabled people can access opportunity, and see friends and family whenever they want, wherever they live. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Excellent analysis by Fraser Nelson of Robert Jenrick’s benefits cuts plan, incl some striking constituency-level figures www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Nice walk at Whaley Bridge, High Peak, Derbyshire.

Estimates suggest over 21,000 social care workers were underpaid the minimum wage in 2024. The true figure is likely higher still once we account for the unpaid travel time which often brings home carers’ average pay below the minimum wage. Read more 👉 buff.ly/87cXtSI

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Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...

Around 12% of UK households are both officially in poverty and paying income tax. UK is now a country that actually taxes its poor ifs.org.uk/articles/unf...

Unfreezing the personal allowance | Institute for Fiscal Studies

What would unfreezing the personal allowance mean for taxpayers and how much would it cost?

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To survive, women sleeping rough often avoid being seen. They stay on buses, in A&E, in all-night cafés – anywhere they might feel less exposed. But staying out of sight to stay safe comes at a cost: it keeps them invisible to the services that should be there to help. www.shp.org.uk/information-...

Women’s Rough Sleeping Census - Single Homeless Project

Women’s rough sleeping is hidden and underreported. Our annual census aims to reveal the true scale and drive change for better services.

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The Vaughan Williams Foundation online database of correspondence relating to the composer's life and works includes transcripts of more than 5,000 fully indexed and searchable items. Explore it here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/discover/let...

Three General Elections, a pandemic, inflation crisis and rising geopolitical tensions have all left their mark on what Brits see as the biggest issues facing the country. The latest in over fifty years of our Ipsos issues index 👉 https://tinyurl.com/yn6jeps3

"Renewable energy generated 52.1% of the UK’s electricity in 2025, exceeding half of total generation for the second consecutive year, according to government statistics." www.renews.biz/other-news/u....

The regional breakdowns are illuminating here...

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last mo.

Would you be happy if this summer's weather became the norm? Happy: 38% Neither: 22% Unhappy: 38% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

They say the best time to plant a tree is 40 years ago… so I’m off on a mini adventure to fact-check that 40 years ago this summer, as a sixth-former, some friends and I volunteered on a conservation project in Snowdonia (Eryri) Now we’re heading back to climb a mountain and see whether it worked…

A huge amount of work to improve health and wellbeing is done by smaller charities. The GSK Community Health programme offers small charities tackling health inequalities up to £10,000 funding plus training and development to support their leaders. Find out more: https://bit.ly/49Iz80t

Plug-in solar panels are coming to the UK from August 27th! It's been in the pipeline for a while & it's already common in Germany. But it's BRILLIANT because it opens up these technologies to renters & ppl w/o their own roof. Plugs into a normal socket & supplies ~ 10-20% of household needs. ☀️🎉

UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August

Law change means renters and flat owners may be able to cut bills as energy costs soar amid Iran war

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Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Everyone I know here has been in total disbelief, to the point that they literally don’t believe the government will actually allow it. Mind you we’ve been here before at least twice. The STFC clearly don’t like the big telescope