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...“Tourism aside,” she said, “it’s about housing, housing, housing. Everything from domestic violence to substance abuse comes back to that.” The Blackpool landladies were the social anchor....
...But more than a decade old, it’s starting to show its age — as with several of BIG’s Copenhagen projects, it could do with some TLC from the city authorities....
...Advocates say the best governments already yield authority by, for example, “tying their hands” through delegating monetary policy to an independent central bank....
...“North Berwick always had great community but Covid has exemplified it,” adds Judy Lockhart-Hunter, chair of the town’s community council....
...Out my bedroom window I see sunsets and sea and islands: Turtle Island, Spectacle Island, Heron Island, Flat Island. I see deer and wild berries and lobstermen on their boats....
...For instance, Iturbide has recently returned from the Canary Islands where she photographed rocks, volcanoes and traces of lava....
...Within weeks of putting out the wildfires, authorities faced a new threat when Covid-19 began spreading rapidly in early March....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...I never got to gaff marlin with Hunter S Thompson. So when the invitation came to go cod fishing in Norway with the hell-raising DBC Pierre, there was no way I was about to pass it up....
...With Grenfell casting its tragic shadow, Champion’s dusty rocks, gathered from London building sites, and angular geometries which map elements of Robin Hood Gardens, the east London social housing project...
...A coordinated easing from monetary and fiscal authorities is what the Eurozone and US want to do - but have thus far been unable to achieve....
...‘V’ by Wooden Shjips is out now on Thrill Jockey. Oh Sees play UK shows in August and September....
...At their London folk club a mangled Cockney version of the American railroad song “Rock Island Line” that reduced Seeger to tears of laughter led to a controversial policy that singers should only perform...
...When the authorities recognised people were abusing prescription drugs on a large scale, they belatedly tried to choke off supply....
...Then they grew, developed, merged, were deregulated and became banks, and you finish up with Northern Rock.”...
...“We are an island that absorbs things from beyond our shores and somehow makes them distinctly our own . . ....
...On the Japanese “Art Island” of Naoshima, reverence rules, so speaking in the presence of the Monet waterlilies was strictly forbidden....
...In their investment in the housing market, authorities also face the same early-stage construction risks as private developers. On completion, the properties are exposed to market fluctuations....
...The ability to project an unstuffy personality is a useful skill in an age when deference to authority is waning among electorates....
...Krolow, who also hosts the reality television show Island Hunters on HGTV, the US home and garden channel, says he is planning an episode on Rio de Janeiro’s popular Angra dos Reis islands....
...The authorities offered amnesties and the owners paid a fine which meant the homes could be bought and sold.” But house-hunters should be wary of these one-time “illegal” residences....
...This year’s event on July 1 included a discussion about government v developer responsibility for social housing....
...Prestige properties on display at Beijing’s Luxury Property Showcase last week included a 100-acre top-producing winery with a cricket pitch in Australia’s Hunter Valley, an entire Solomon Island where the...
...That dislodged a gigantic rock from its orbit in the outer reaches of the solar system and hurled it towards the sun, until Earth got in the way....
...We’re also opening negotiations on a city deal with Edinburgh; we back the new V&A in Dundee....
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