Tag Archives: Geography of England

10Jun/23

OKX-Manchester City Partnership on the Pitch in Istanbul

OKX, a world-leading Web3 technology company and Official Cryptocurrency Exchange Partner of Manchester City Football Club is proud to support the club as it reaches a historic Final in Istanbul, Türkiye tomorrow, on 10 June. Manchester City players will wear the OKX Training Kit before the match at Atatürk Olympic Stadium, where they will face off against Inter Milan. Continue reading

21Feb/23

15-minute cities: how to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory

Alex Nurse, University of Liverpool; Alessia Calafiore, The University of Edinburgh, and Richard J. Dunning, University of Liverpool

Conspiracy theories aren’t a new thing, and for as long as they’ve been around they’ve ranged from the benign to the absurd. From the six moon landings being faked to the Earth being flat, or our ruling class being lizards, we’ve all probably come across them in one form or another.

Yet, in a surprise twist, the hottest conspiracy theory of 2023 comes from an unlikely corner: town planning. This relates to the idea of “the 15-minute city” and has even gone so far as to be mentioned in UK parliament by an MP who called the idea “an international socialist concept” that will “cost us our personal freedom”.

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