Brilliant: London's Central Line turned into a line graph of house prices. Taken from http://t.co/luGS0bahMN pic.twitter.com/xeOcuqQr76
- Andrew Losowsky (@losowsky) November 12, 2014
A new collection of data maps of London reveals a city heaving with information.

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Of UK papers, only Telegraph & Mirror supported same party in every general election since '45 http://t.co/OQ3v5yuMZg pic.twitter.com/KjsfXeK3R4
- Gergely Polner (@eurocrat) November 10, 2014

And wot would an entry about the British fourth estate be without one of my favourite comedy moments making yet another appearance on this blog:

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What do Islamophobes and Islamists have in common? Great quote from Radical by Maajid Nawaz. pic.twitter.com/1bwSjRKXKM
- Justin Cartwright (@JustinKaneC) November 11, 2014

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US soldiers who died in
Civil War 498k
WWII 292k
Vietnam 58k
WWI 53k
Korea 37k
Revolution 4k
Iraq 4k
#VeteransDay pic.twitter.com/0kEoEaBVLk
- Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) November 11, 2014

Map: All the British soldiers who have been lost in conflict since 1945 http://t.co/ddvbtv7mnS pic.twitter.com/lYWslhtzLv
- i100 (@thei100) November 9, 2014

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Chattri, Brighton is where fallen Hindu and Sikh soldiers of #WW1 were cremated.

Remembered forever #LestWeForget pic.twitter.com/rLRUhQjzpx
- Matthew Ward (@HistoryNeedsYou) November 10, 2014

I never knew such a memorial existed in this country. Seems obvious now. I hope to visit it one day.

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The FT's @TimHarford lambasts Osborne and the journalists who accepted his spin http://t.co/bEiwoSOTi1 pic.twitter.com/sHg3Uvz4al
- Tim Montgomerie (@montie) November 8, 2014

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Proud to be British. Then and now. pic.twitter.com/tx0HgOtM1I
- Rae Earl (@RaeEarl) November 4, 2014

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I missed the perfect opportunity to use the #scorchio hash-tag in my tweet (http://t.co/cYsfndNu) about the Muscat weather. So here it is.
- Al-Ram (@ablokeinlondon) June 19, 2012