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🧊🇮🇸🇪🇺Iceland has looked across the North Atlantic at Brussels, considered restarting talks about joining the European Union, and politely responded with the diplomatic equivalent of: “Nah, we’re good.” On 29 August, Icelanders weren’t even voting to join the EU. They were voting on whether to reopen negotiations about possibly joining at some unspecified point in…
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Sometimes you look at Britain and wonder if anyone is actually planning ahead, or whether governments just spend billions fixing one problem before discovering they have created another. Take Scotland. We have huge amounts of wind power, but when too much electricity is produced the grid cannot always move it where it is needed, so…
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🚗🐌Birmingham once helped define Britain’s motoring age — a city of factories, engines, roads and ordinary people enjoying the revolutionary freedom of going somewhere without consulting a railway timetable. Now the city is considering a very different transport legacy: 20mph limits across almost every road below A-road classification, a move that could make Birmingham England’s…

