Making the news today....

[openspaceman]

44 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Maybe it's time to take a proper look at why we use GDP as the key measure of national economic 'success' and start to place greater value upon the more holistic human needs.

I wish

44 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

 

Maybe it's time to recognise the unintended benefits that have come from this situation and build them into the vision for the future.

Trouble is too many of us follow the Adam Smith model and act like yeast in fermenting beer, expanding more and more until they pickle themselves in their own effluent

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

44 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

I wish

Trouble is too many of us follow the Adam Smith model and act like yeast in fermenting beer, expanding more and more until they pickle themselves in their own effluent

Flashback to O Level economics ? that was a blast from the past!!  ?

 

Frighteningly accurate when we take a long hard look at ourselves though...  Human nature is a dangerous thing (whilst drinking columbian coffee sat in front of the iMac powered by energy from a French owned company and presenting an American icon to emphasise the point.) ? 

 

 

[openspaceman]

22 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

 

Cheeky whippersnapper, I've tried and failed more times than you've had hot dinners.

[Khriss]

.......there's me thinking this was a devious an treacherous plot by a  lil shouty Swede n now I see Kev has been planning his ascent to the throne all along   ?  K

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

43 minutes ago, Khriss said:

.......there's me thinking this was a devious an treacherous plot by a  lil shouty Swede n now I see Kev has been planning his ascent to the throne all along   ?  K

Turnip!

[Stere]

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Maybe it's time to recognise the unintended benefits that have come from this situation and build them into the vision for the future.

Milan is to introduce one of Europe’s most ambitious schemes reallocating street space from cars to cycling and walking, in response to the coronavirus crisis.

The northern Italian city and surrounding Lombardy region are among Europe’s most polluted, and have also been especially hard hit by the Covid-19 outbreak.

Under the nationwide lockdown, motor traffic congestion has dropped by 30-75%, and air pollution with it. City officials hope to fend off a resurgence in car use as residents return to work looking to avoid busy public transport.

The city has announced that 35km (22 miles) of streets will be transformed over the summer, with a rapid, experimental citywide expansion of cycling and walking space to protect residents as Covid-19 restrictions are lifted.

 

Milan announces ambitious scheme to reduce car use after lockdown | World news | The Guardian

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Coronavirus-hit Lombardy city will turn 35km of streets over to cyclists and pedestrians

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Airlines appearing to be pulling out of Gatwick. 
 

All this talk of ‘support’ to the industry to see it through Brexit and COVID

 

How much is the potentially redundant (before it starts) Heathrow expansion...?

[TIMON]

Airlines appearing to be pulling out of Gatwick. 
 
All this talk of ‘support’ to the industry to see it through Brexit and COVID
 
How much is the potentially redundant (before it starts) Heathrow expansion...?

It’s beginning to look like a lot of established firms will be more like ‘start-ups’ once restrictions finally get lifted.

Maybe that will be a good thing if some of the big monopolies are broken.
I think one of the downsides of free-market capitalism is that eventually the big corporations swallow everything up.

Amazon being a case in point. I’ll be buying as little as I can through them, and as much as I can from the local high st once the lockdown is over

[Khriss]

Gatwick is an arse to get to an perfectly good tube train to Heathrow - which as there are fuck all people on Piccadilly Line , would be my journey of choice.  K

[scbk]

Crane fail during testing in germany, apparently this was due to be heading over here to the cromarty firth for work on an off shore wind farm