What does a future-proofed home look like?
By Christine Ro
Colin Heal s house is prepared for an uncertain future.
The three-storey house in the village of Wheathampstead, about an hour s drive north of London, has 35 solar panels that produce more energy than Mr Heal and his wife can use, so they can sell surplus electricity.
The house is fully electric. The couple plan to buy solar battery storage so that even more of their energy is useable.
While flooding is a concern in the surrounding area, they don t worry about it - and not just because their house is on an elevation.
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The national politicians most associated with the false QAnon conspiracy theory Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert are women. (Boebert has repeatedly denied that she is a QAnon follower, but she has voiced support for the theory in the past.) Two of the people who died in the January 6 Capitol riot were women, both QAnon followers.
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by Christine Ro: Latvians are often self-deprecating about their culture’s tendency towards introversion, but could this personality trait be the key to their creative identity?
In a comic book produced by the organisation Latvian Literature for the recent London Book Fair, the main character gives a rare smile on realising that the weather outside is perfect. That is, it’s heavily snowing, and thus he’s unlikely to meet anyone out on the roads. As he says, “below zero = below average risk of random encounter”.
The comic is part of Latvian Literature’s #IAMINTROVERT campaign to celebrate – and affectionately make fun of – a kind of social reserve that Anete Konste, a Latvian publicist and writer who devised the campaign, sees as very representative of her nation. “I don’t think our campaign is an exaggeration at all,” she said. “In reality it’s even worse!”