Andreas Richardsonflipped into Nerd++ We Will Pay for Our Summer Vacations With Winter Lockdowns The New York Times - Devi SridharEDINBURGH, Scotland — This spring, when Western Europe became an epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, countries imposed strict lockdowns: In France, a person needed a permit to go shopping; Spain required...
Andreas Richardsonflipped into Nerd++Constitutional Law The UK’s constitution is not working Financial Times - David Allen GreenThe writer is an FT contributing editor Despite all the political excitement and drama of the past five years, the UK has not so far had a constitutional crisis. Every fundamental tension between the of...
Andreas Richardsonflipped into Nerd++David Byrne How Covid turned theatre companies into community services Financial TimesDuring the UK’s coronavirus lockdown, which began in March, the wardrobe department at Berkshire’s Watermill Theatre made scrubs for the National Health Service. Chichester Festival Theatre gave over visiting-artist...
Andreas Richardsonflipped into Nerd++Hamlet Upload yourself to the theatre for To Be a Machine Financial Times - Sarah HemmingIf you woke up this morning with a bad back you may have cursed the frailties of the body in which you live. You may have hunted down a painkiller to limit the impact on your early morning meeting. You...
Andreas Richardsonflipped into Nerd++Loyalty US airlines reveal profitability of frequent flyer programmes Financial Times - Claire BusheyAirline executives have hinted in recent years that frequent flyer programmes, particularly in the US, are profitable. It took a global pandemic to reveal just how profitable. A quartet of US carriers...
Andreas Richardsonflipped into Nerd++Science America’s Top Science Journal Has Had It With Trump WIRED - Adam Rogers With an archive that goes back to 1880 and a reputation for publishing world-changing research, the journal Science is the apex predator of academic …
