To be clear, this one isn't in London or one of the other big cities; it's in the suburbs of Bristol, a smaller city.
I was under the impression that property prices in Tokyo were pretty insane. This is more like the equivalent of a garden shed in Fukuyama.
We have the same thing you call "pickles"- we call them gherkins (and very small ones "cornichons"). We just have lots of other pickles too! Pickled onions, pickled cabbage, pickled carrots, pickled beetroot, pickled cockles, pickled eggs...
There are two things which we call pickles that are really more like a chutney- "sandwich pickle" (which is what this is; Branston pickle and its imitators) and "piccalilli" (which is bright yellow).
NIMBYs once again should get in the fucking sea.
Ubuntu Touch is such a nice user experience. If it had an Android-tier app ecosystem it'd be a very nice daily driver.
I guess it could have been four people ordering 2000 cars each on back order?
Or perhaps one person ordering 8000.
That person's name? Nole Ksum. You've not met him. He goes to a different school.
Ah, the great beige era. I miss beige computers.
Sort of.
British company Cello make one. I don't know if the carbonator is made in the UK, but the company brags that it's the only company to manufacturer TVs in Britain so I presume they also manufacture the rest of their products here too.
Both Network Rail and LCR have already been working in this space for a long time; this is more about increasing the scale than about doing something new.
Reading is an interesting example; all those big towers and blocks that have sprung up around the station in the last decade? The vast majority are on what was previously railway land.
Persuading the UK government to build HS2 to Liverpool and also the missing link between HS2 and HS1...
Good luck with that.
Orwell's Animal Farm would seem like a good way to go. Not having any Orwell in a dystopian literature class would seem like a miss, and Animal Farm's heavy parable style sets it apart from the others in the list.
Off beat suggestion: The Lorax by Dr Seuss. It might be interesting to study dystopia aimed at younger children as part of a full exploration of the genre.
Possibly somewhat on-the-nose, but It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis is fairly timely.
Back with the classics, perhaps The Trial by Franz Kafka. Very effective and highly distilled form of dystopian text, boiled right down to its elements.
Shout out to The Last Man by Mary Shelley, which is a contender for the first true dystopian novel (certainly one of the first worth remembering).
SUSE already has quite a sizeable number of municipal users in Germany. It wouldn't be hard to imagine the EU contracting with SUSE.