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Meanwhile, a new NBER paper reckons Brexit has wiped 5-8% from UK’s GDP, higher than initial forecasts because effects are still kicking in. coilink.org/20.500.12592...

Once Wol could fly (and land without crashing) we released him. Hope he made it.

. . . And started owl physio. Stretching the wing, massaging the foot, getting Wol to perch. Then flying lessons around the kitchen! More chicks to build weight.

. . . Didn’t have to force-feed him, he got through quite a number of dead chicks (it was a cold, wet, spring). After four weeks, we unstrapped the wing and removed the splint . . .

We fashioned a splint for the leg and strapped the wing and put the owl (now named Wol) into a cage where he clacked his beak angrily every time we got too near . . .

I caught the owl, bantam and chicks and restored order. (My mother not pleased, three chicks died). Examination of owl showed one broken wing and one broken leg, but no broken spirit! . . .

. . . I hadn’t realised my mother had put a newly hatched brood of bantams to keep warm on the other side of the stove!

. . . Next morning, I came down early to find bedlam! The owl was chasing bantam chicks around the kitchen chased by their mother . . .

. . . And put him to bed next to the oil-fired stove in the kitchen. Poorly, I reckoned he’d die in the night . . .

Late one evening I found a Little Owl flapping about in a rural road. Poor thing must have been hit by a car. I threw a rug over him and took him home . . .

Congrats. And couldn't agree more about the need to look beyond citations in academic journals to tell a positive story about #RealWorldImpact. I wonder how many of these reports from think tanks, NGOs etc cited your work? policycommons.net/search/?q=%2...

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The Special

Quite right, but this story that no-one reads UN reports is nonsense! Virtually all reports are downloaded >500 times, and a third are downloaded >2k times which compares well with scholarly books and journal articles!

Don’t worry. We’ve got the originals all safe and sound.

The Untold Stories of Our Cities Are Finally Searchable When we think about the history of North America’s cities, we often think of skylines, infrastructure, and urban planning. But behind every zoning map and transportation grid lies a far more human sto...

Just released - 5M pages of North American city reports, community assessments, public health initiatives, refugee studies, and civil rights documentation from 1950-1999. Social history ready to be explored.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/untold...

To put this in perspective: a year’s worth of irregular migrants would fit into a premier league stadium while a year’s worth of legal immigrants is equivalent to one weekend’s attendance at all pro football matches in the UK.

Our search engine now covers 21 million policy reports, posts, podcasts and papers from c30k sources. If the item you find is still online, we’ll send you there. If it isn’t, we’ll give you a copy. If we’re not indexing one of your favorite sources, let us know.

And they’re printed by a French company in Poland.

They are also available here policycommons.net/orgs/united-... along with other reports published by USGCRP (we’ve also archived another 300,000 .gov reports that have disappeared incl USAID reports)

Many of our amazing #DataRescue librarian volunteers are at #alaac25 We also want to give a shout out to our partners who are in the exhibit hall @internetarchiveca.bsky.social @policycommons.bsky.social and others. We have work to do still to raise awareness of the importance of public data!

This line was pushed at the recent OTT conference in Jo’burg. But as I reminded delegates, the most impactful report over the past 12 months must be Project 2025 which weighed in at over 900 pages . . 🤔

#OECD’s growth forecast today doesn’t agree with Trump’s.
I wonder why 🧐 coilink.org/20.500.12592...

We’re now recommended by Harvard!

How come countries like France deliver big projects faster than countries like UK? Niskanen Center reckons it has something to do with common law systems . . . coilink.org/20.500.12592...

Why do Anglophone countries struggle with big planning projects? A new report from the Niskanen Center argues that the root cause lies in their adversarial common-law systems. coilink.org/20.500.12592...

We’ve indexed 414 documents on post-pandemic school enrolment/access: policycommons.net/search/?q=po... If you’d like to explore further, dm me and I’ll send you an access code.

Waste in #Space
With satellite launches and the volume of #waste both increasing exponentially, the risk of one hitting the other only grows. @ESA @esa.int monitors this risk. coilink.org/20.500.1259... has data, policy and mitigation updates.

What is a podcast?
As we begin to index podcasts in Policy Commons (suggestions welcome! mailto:toby.green@coherentdigital.net) Edison Research poses the question, what exactly are they and why are they so hard to sustain? coilink.org/20.500.1259...

The America First Policy Institute blames 'freeloading rich countries’ for the high prices Americans pay for their pills (or are they simply better negotiators?) coilink.org/20.500.1259...