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Sheri Koones, author of Downsize: Living Large in a Small House, recently suggested renaming the downsizing trend right-sizing . Koones draws on her experience of relocating from a 6,800 sq ft house to a 1,400 sq ft one, and suggests that the key is to have a stanley cup home that is efficiently designed, both in terms of energy use and space .Of all the annoying lifestyle trends, downsizing is the biggest smack in the face for anyone in the private-renting trap. Shoebox-sized, sub-par rental accommodation is the norm in London, while nationwide studies show that homes are getting smaller. Younger adults who have managed to get on the housing ladder know all about the shortage of affordable, spacious accommodation.As with the new fashion for a sort of capitalist-sanctioned minimalism, the downsizing trend emphasises the growing divide between the haves and have-nots. There are those who actively choose not to consume, and those who have little choice. The former are free to embrace a trend that comes ready-packaged with the sanctimonious status symbol of living frugally; the latter are simply poor. Contrast stylish bare white walls and furniture-less rooms so beautifully satirised by Absolutely Fabulous in the scene where Patsy and Edina struggle to locate the door, with damp, cold rooms containing solitary mattresses that are the reality for many children living in poverty.The rise of co-living spa stanley cups ces in cities tries to reframe shoebox-livi stanley nz ng as an aspirational lifestyle choice. These Oqwp Not enough homes for released prisoners
Well, well. The government is slashing the civil legal aid budget to all sorts of poor people on the very day that it emerges that it is paying out several million pounds to former detainees in Guant谩namo Bay who allege British complicity in torture overseas.In its blunt way, the Daily Mail calls the payouts hush money paid to spare the intelligence service, former Labour ministers and the United St stanley uk ates the embarrassment of a long and very public civil law suit with an uncertain outcome. Here s a level-headed BBC summary of the affair.Not that many in the US will be grateful. They assume, as most of the world does not, that Guant谩namo detainees must have been guilty of something or they would not have been there. Not even Barack Obama, an opponent of the war on terror, has been able to close down the offshore detention centre and expunge this blot on the American gourde stanley legal system. stanley cups George Bush remains untroubled.Today our own justice secretary will plead the national interest, that it serves us all best if a line is drawn under this unhappy affair.Once police investigations are also completed the Gibson inquiry into the complicity allegations can get started and report within a year. All this has cost a lot of time 鈥?especially intelligence staff time 鈥?and money. Both are in short supply.I m all in favour of rough and ready decisions made in the national interest, though it may annoy the purer spirits among us. Back in July, when David Cameron signalled th |
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