Category Archives: think tank

End Child Poverty

Posted on October 16, 2009 | Leave a comment

Child poverty has been an issue dogging our country for years, despite the government’s best efforts. We’ll we’ve come up with a solution. It’s all about the schools.

Read the full argument here and then send it off to Gordon!

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Mobile Treehouse

Posted on September 27, 2009 | 5 Comments

This amazing mobile treehouse was recently sold on E-Bay for around Aus$12,000.

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It was created by Forestry Tasmania with its original use being to promote tourism – the mobile nature of their information center being crucial to it’s success in this role. It is a pretty grotty inside but the external view is just stunning. We can think of millions of uses for this astonishing structure from a private library, guest bedroom and even the best children’s den ever.

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Source: Sweet Station

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We need more sheds!

Posted on August 11, 2009 | Leave a comment

The internet, the television, DNA, it can sometimes seem that the British have invented the modern world. But with many people complaining about health and safety regulations, middle management and bureaucracy stifling our creativity, we ask ourselves what has gone wrong with Blighty, and how can we make her great again?

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Could it be the nanny state? Could it be political correctness insisting everyone has to be equally mundane? Or could it be something far simpler?

Do we simply need to give our inventors the resources they really need?

The ones that housed the invention of the jet engine, that enabled Henry Ford to build his first motor car, while Mrs.Ford busied herself about the housekeeping and the latest gossip?

Do we simply need more garden sheds?

Forget investing in wasteful employment schemes and half baked business advice. Let Peter Mandelson and the DTI subsidise sheds, and let Britain rule the world once more.

If reading this has given you the need for shed then make sure you visit the brilliant Readers Sheds blog. Here are Baby’s top five picks to whet your appetite for wood:

The Tardis, Kent

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