What we learned this week

Years ago I wrote about the problem of waste tyres. While alternatives exist, there is little incentive for the big companies to make better tyres. Make them responsible for disposal and this will change – and here’s an article from the BBC about what future tyres might look like.

Homes For Us is a new campaign around social housing from the New Economics Foundation, a neglected solution to Britain’s slow motion crisis in housing.

Here’s a strange thing: this month the cost of filling a f...