Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Police Killed in Line of Duty

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 Turns out there's a wikipedia pag e for US police killed in line of duty. Quite a contrast with a page for UK police killed. For anyone...
Friday, September 09, 2022

Unbelievable--So Much for White Superiority

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The other day the Times had an article discussing the composition of the cabinet selected by PM Truss, which notably had no white males in ...
Monday, March 21, 2022

Red Tractor--UK

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 Saw a tweet complaining about the 230-odd pages of material the Red Tractor inspector wanted.  Did a search and found it's a UK scheme ...
Wednesday, July 07, 2021

The Bureaucrat's Necessity: Forms in the UK

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 I designed and redesigned a fair number of forms during my career. We had a Forms Management Branch in ASCS when I started.  The program sp...
Wednesday, September 02, 2020

Rebanks and the American System--Corn Laws Redux

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 James Rebanks had a best-selling book back in 2015-- The Shepherd's Life , a memoir of raising sheep in northwestern England.  More rec...
Tuesday, May 05, 2020

On Fences and Hedgerows

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Here's an article on hedgerows  in the UK.  I remember visiting North Carolina ASCS offices with the district director (this was 1968 ...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

Why Not Follow the UK: Gov Wifi

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For commercial establishments everyone and her brother now offer WiFi.  Not the government, at least not that I am aware of.  But our Briti...
Friday, July 15, 2016

The Culture Which Is British (not USSR or USA)

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With apologies to Marginal Revolution where Tyler Cowen has posts beginning: "The Culture Which Is...", here's a link to a Po...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Surprise of the Day--London's Canals

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London has twice the mileage of canals as Amsterdam, according to this article in the NYTimes. Apparently housing prices in London have ...
Friday, November 01, 2013

UK Versus US: Enclosed Farmland

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An interesting piece in Buzzfeed (Hat tip: Marginal Revolution) on Britain's housing problems. But I want to steal one of its 15 graph...
Monday, October 01, 2012

The Culture Which Was Victorian

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This post from Treehugger on "tin pack tabernacles" captures a key aspect of Victorian Britain: a combination of  their engineeri...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

UK Versus US Government

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Don't remember to whom I owe a hat tip, but this provides an overview of how social policy is administered in the UK.  A couple excerpt...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Big Versus Small Farmers

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Even in the UK there's tension between big farmers and small farmers.  See this post from Musings of a Stonehead on the position, as he...
Friday, February 04, 2011

On Class, and the Lack Thereof

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I recommend Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet , a book of essays written as he became immobilized in body by Lou Gehrig's disease. It...
Friday, November 26, 2010

British Exceptionalism

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From Ralph Luker at Cliopatria comes a hilarious video on all things British?
Saturday, November 20, 2010

The Unmentionable in France

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Dirk Beauregarde provides more information than some will want, on excretion in France and the UK.  Among the items: "70% of French ...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Us and the Brits--Transition and Budgets

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There's been a little comment in the blogosphere on the transition in Britain. Took a day or two to come up with a coalition government,...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

British Bureaucrats Are Different

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The first two paragraphs from the Guardian: David Cameron would retain Gordon Brown's top civil servant as his right-hand man in Downi...