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Welcome news but the “standard” 40-hour work week is already above the EU average. Lowering it to 37.5 hours is not a decisive step to a four-day work week but it at least shows how work time reduction is back on the political agenda independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

As others like J.K. Galbraith warned, advertising is about creating false needs. It exists to make us consume more (often of things that harm our health and which make us have to work more). All our lives would be better if it was restricted theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

A joke might be crafted that says extending leisure time is good for the economy at least when accompanied by good weather theguardian.com/business/2025/…

This paper is now out (if you were ever curious about what Alfred Marshall had to say on the nature and impacts of work) academic.oup.com/cje/article/49…

I am a non-driving and non-meat eating outlier theguardian.com/environment/20…

"*Eventually*, a planned Leeds/Bradford tram network – on which construction is due to start in 2028 – will be woven into the pattern". I will believe it when I see it theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

True grit entails resisting rhetoric that teaching "grit" to children is key to boosting their mental health theguardian.com/society/2025/m…

Memories of Goodison Park, you say. There can only be one #lufc m.youtube.com/watch?v=DXn_G4…

Contrary to this report, a shorter working week is a sign of progress and an indication of the success of the German economy ft.com/content/ad7b60…

A blow for advocates of shorter working hours bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Looking up (at the cricket)

I miss the AI that will liberate us from drudgery and win us more free time ft.com/content/452609…

Not too big to fall. The former headquarters of Yorkshire Bank being pulled down

Shifts in ownership (ruled out by the review) would offer more innovative and effective solutions than a reformed form of regulation bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

“£2.1bn to start building the West Yorkshire Mass Transit programme by 2028” — “mass” maybe misapplied here, though “start” as opposed to “progress” or “finish” may be very apt (I predict no trams in Leeds any time soon) bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The chances of Leeds getting a mass transport system are equivalent to the odds of winning the lottery #Leeds bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Not in Leeds - we pride ourselves on taking the bus #buses theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

The Malthusian checks have worked rather too well bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Could we see a race between AI generated answers and AI assessed work? The loser: human knowledge bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…