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  • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
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    The awkward silences in our cities’ streets

    ‘There are moments in history when the story changes, caused by war, a pandemic or a deep recession. We are there now’

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
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    The price of lighting our homes has always been steep

    As energy costs spiral, history shows how humans and animals paid dearly for electricity — and the progress it allowed

  • Wednesday, 16 March, 2022
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    Safe as houses? War rips apart the sanctuary of home

    The barbarity in Ukraine challenges our complacency about the security and permanence of our homes

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    The ‘boomerang’ generation may have special ties to their parents’ palaces — but unlike the Queen, most will have inheritance tax to consider

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    Don’t chuck out the chintz — or the Billy bookcase

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  • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
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    Why Insulate Britain leaves us out in the cold

    The anorak activists are causing traffic chaos and have made home insulation a political issue

  • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
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    Is London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone eroding our freedom?

    Expanding the city’s zone for lower emissions encourages the move to electric vehicles but comes with costs

  • Wednesday, 18 August, 2021
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    How Soho went from rough and ready to sleek and sterile

    The showroom-ification of ‘London’s playground’ is bad news for locals

  • Tuesday, 20 July, 2021
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    We can no longer say floods are an act of God

    ‘One law of physics still holds: the warmer the air, the more moisture it can hold. The more moisture, the more rain’

  • Tuesday, 22 June, 2021
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    Imagine no possessions — it’s easy if you’re Elon Musk

    Tesla’s tech prophet has proclaimed homes have no value to him. Could he have a point?

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    How the lawn became a no-mow area

    An environmentalist campaign exhorts us to let the grass grow long, a boon for wild flowers, insects — and the lazy

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    Clubhouse and the law of unintended consequences

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    John Lewis and the nightmare on Oxford Street

    For Middle England’s go-to retailer, ‘normal and respectable’ is a hard sell in our age of individualism

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    Postcodes from the edge: how an upstart app is changing the world’s addresses

    Business and government have adopted it to transform navigation, location technology — and your lockdown deliveries

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
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  • Friday, 1 January, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The need for a damned good party

    Come raise a glass to predictions of a new roaring 20s after the pandemic

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