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Different reasons, but this is the same for residents of Australia. Shows you how quickly you can lose your liberties.

I've never understood why people pay so much money to live in studio flats in crap areas of a city. We live out in Kent and including a drive to the train station and buying the ti…

People have been volunteering their time and they are still raising £200,000 to get the table completed.

Looks very promising. There was some doubt about interferons as they can also help COVID to get into the body but some new research from the University of Southampton has cleared u…

I had only heard of Enchroma but then stumbled across and bought some Pilestone glasses last month. I think they cost me around £120 here in the UK. At first I put them on and they…

In the UK we have Yodel, which is essentially 'contracted amateurs' delivering in their own vehicles.

There must be some form of this still in practice in the UK, though maybe it doesn't do it while in motion. I frequently have to get into a particular set of carriages on my journe…

I can hire good local people an hour outside of London for that price.

Was strangely fun answering these. Can't wait to chart some of this data on http://chartblocks.com

We wouldn't want to miss out on a great speaker because they couldn't afford to get to and stay in London.

We just started making one of these for internal use - will probably use this instead now.

We built a site for a Russian supermarket and tried using Yandex maps as that's what they wanted. Was accurate for Russian addresses, as you would expect, but ended up switching fo…

From 'fourteen nights' - two weeks

'To' is the most common version in British English.

Another Lewis book, The Big Short, is also a good introduction to the events leading up to the 2008 crash.

Google Charts is hosted, like https://app.chartblocks.com - you can download or save the charts that get produced but it's not a charting library that can be used offline. If you w…