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Theresa May (verb) /təˈriːzə meɪ/: To retire a with a flurry of nice sounding yet ultimately destructive policies in an attempt to secure a legacy “The vice-chancellor really Theresa Mayed the medicine department with that ban on single use needles” Related: Legacymaxxing

🚨NEW: One of Keir Starmer's last acts will be a massive expansion of 'work of equal value' pay claims that are already bankrupting local councils to cover race too. All this will do is cost taxpayers and consumer more, and encourage divisive identity politics in the workplace.

The "need" for women's chess is fairly simple to explain. Women comprise about 8% of chess players, meaning there are at least 12 men for every woman competing. And when you're "selecting" amazing individuals near the tails of any competence distribution, it's not the averages you care about - it's the exceptional individuals. And the reality is that simply through greater participation, men throw about 12x as many people at the problem, and so the odds are that the top players will be male. And they are, no surprise to the math. Now, if you NEVER saw exceptional women, it would be different. But women have been ranked as high as 2735, which is ludicrously high. So they exist; they're just very rare by comparison, as you would expect. If the roles were reversed (by a factor of 144x, mind you), it's pretty easy to conclude women would then be on top. In other words, it tells you very little about the comparative distributions of male vs female geniuses when the populations are of massively different sizes. This is my daughter, who just beat me yesterday. I'm not rated, but she must be pretty good :-)

It’s really hard to see the case that the UK’s social housing system, with its extremely varying rewards of housing based entirely on geographic accident, is ‘fair’. Good for equality? Sure. A net utility gain? Likely. But it’s far too arbitrary to feel fair.

This school in Niger is built of laterite earth, which the region has in abundance. In most cases across Africa, architects and engineers skip the material beneath their feet and go for sand and cement instead, materials that cost more and perform worse in this climate. Collège Amadou Hampaté Bâ, Niamey, holds 1,200 students. Article 25 built it from laterite block and earth brick, paired with a double roof system, earth vault below, metal canopy above, angled to pull airflow through the gap and block solar heat from reaching the classrooms. Daytime temperatures here regularly cross 40 degrees. Classrooms stay 7 to 8 degrees cooler than outside air by mid afternoon, fully occupied, no mechanical cooling running. Sand and cement have to be trucked in and priced up. Laterite is under the feet of the people building with it. We keep paying more for the option that performs worse in our own climate. Plant trees and grass around the compound and the passive cooling compounds, shade cuts ambient heat before it reaches the walls. The building has already proven the concept works. The landscape is the unfinished part. Architect: Article 25 Location: Niamey, Niger Completed: 2022 Area: 970 sqm Materials: laterite stone, earth brick, metal roofing

"David Harvey from Westminster City Council, said the authority believes about 3,000 of the borough's 13,000 Airbnb listings are illegally sublet social homes." You must make a good income letting social housing in London out on Airbnb.