Mark Millar shares his tips for minimalist kitchens SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info With more choosing open-plan living and adding extensions to their houses, the kitchen has increasingly become central to the look and feel of homes. No longer a space to shut the door and forget about, your kitchen is a showpiece as well as a practical space to prepare meals and dine. Wine cooler experts elitefridges.co.uk have shared five luxury items that are sure to give your kitchen that "wow factor”. Related articles ‘Kitchen faux pas’ to avoid when designing space - ‘huge impact’ ‘Clever’ features that will add the 'wow factor’ to kitchens for less Although style and taste are subjective, these luxury … [Read more...] about Five kitchen items you ‘need’ to give your space the ‘wow factor’ – also ‘very practical’
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Tories can no longer avoid telling hard truths about the route out of this mess
A few months back I wandered into the second-hand bookshop of a National Trust property. It confounded the modern reputation of the Trust by having on display a copy of Let our Children Grow Tall , a collection of Margaret Thatcher’s speeches from the late 1970s. They are of remarkable depth and length. Although we can well do without most aspects of the 1970s in our modern politics, it would be good to recover the ability to set out political ideas in a non-trivial way. I do not suggest that these speeches should be the basis for a modern political programme nearly 50 years later. As Mrs Thatcher herself said: “Every generation must restate its values in the light of present challenges and of past experience.” What they do show, however, is the effort she felt she needed to put into explaining her ideas. In retrospect, it seems obvious that by the late 1970s the post-war consensus had run out of road. It wasn’t so clear at the time. The consensus set the intellectual climate. … [Read more...] about Tories can no longer avoid telling hard truths about the route out of this mess
Graphene-based sieve turns seawater into drinking water
By Paul Rincon Published 3 April 2017 comments Comments Share close Share page Copy link About sharing A UK-based team of researchers has created a graphene-based sieve capable of removing salt from seawater. The sought-after development could aid the millions of people without ready access to clean drinking water. The promising graphene oxide sieve could be highly efficient at filtering salts, and will now be tested against existing desalination membranes. It has previously been difficult to manufacture graphene-based barriers on an industrial scale. Reporting their results in the journal Nature Nanotechnology , scientists from the University of Manchester, led by Dr Rahul Nair, show how they solved some of the challenges by using a chemical derivative called graphene oxide. Isolated and characterised by a University of Manchester-led team in 2004, … [Read more...] about Graphene-based sieve turns seawater into drinking water
Don’t listen to Gordon Brown — nationalised energy companies would be a disaster
Kudos to Gordon Brown. The former Labour Prime Minister and Chancellor is at least coming up with bold ideas to tackle soaring energy bills . Unfortunately these ideas are not new, and they are not good ones either. Brown’s starting point is that the energy price cap should be "suspended" before the results of the latest review are announced on 26 August, which presumably means that the cap would be frozen at the current level. Ed Davey, speaking for the Liberal Democrats, has also called for the rise in the cap to be scrapped. This would obviously be popular, but it would still be poor economics. Global energy prices have jumped because supply and demand are out of balance. Market signals need to be allowed to work properly, increasing the incentives for producers to raise output and for consumers to economise, where they can. Of course, many households are already struggling to pay their bills and the pressure on their budgets will only increase. Nonetheless, … [Read more...] about Don’t listen to Gordon Brown — nationalised energy companies would be a disaster