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Do we love our mums more than our dads?
It’s Father’s Day on Sunday, and I’m feeling slightly conflicted about how to celebrate it. Or whether to celebrate it. Isn’t it all a big marketing con? Made up by Americans? Just designed to make us consume more? I don’t need to buy my dad a card (wasting more of the world’s precious resources) just [...]
Get flood-rich quick
Last summer’s floods affected 49,000 households, 7,000 businesses and cost the British economy nearly £4 billion. And – sorry to be the harbinger of doom – as a new report says we’re entering a ‘flood-rich’ period, it seems unlikely that we’ve seen the last of such destruction.
