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MPs to get free vote to relax fox hunting ban next week
Christopher Hope and Steven Swinford, The Telegraph
Time to dust off those breeches; traditional fox hunting may be back in England by Boxing Day. While most keen eyes focus on the Tory budget announced this week, the rurally inclined have something else to celebrate: David Cameron will put the 2004 Hunting Act (which outlawed hunts of more than two hounds) to a free vote, which, if passed, will go to the House of Lords for an autumn debate. The Conservatives expect the partial-repeal to pass easily—surely a cause for celebration both at 10 Downing Street and in environs farther afield.
Sheep May Safely Graze in Nolita
Melanie Grayce West, The Wall Street Journal
That bleating you heard while strolling downtown? It’s not the Mayor complaining about being bullied by the Governor. No; it’s an actual herd of sheep. Reversing the trend of city residents fleeing upstate, Nolita’s most unlikely residents (we think) are a trio of sheep who make their new home in the yard of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. Melanie Grayce West details the innovative plan to restore a semblance of livestock to lower Manhattan.
Preservation Palpitations
Myron Magnet, City Journal
New York remains the site of constant tension between developers and conservators. While the skirmishes continue downtown and in midtown, the boundaries of the conflict have shifted uptown, to Myron Magnet’s own Upper West Side. Fearing another district of characterless glass towers, Magnet proposes an alternate solution, one that’s taken hold across the park: modernized architecture in keeping with the neighborhood’s existing landmarks.
Aristocrat unveils £1m multiverse land art by Charles Jencks
Emily Sharpe, The Art Newspaper
What do you do when you’re (reportedly) the largest private landowner in all of Britain but fifty-five of your acres have been blighted by a failed coal mine? Naturally you commission Charles Jencks to design a massive work of landscape art. Emily Sharpe has the story of the Duke of Buccleuch’s vision for the “Crawick Multiverse.”
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