Clare Whitney

Trying to make founders describe their products in simple everyday language is like trying to push together the north poles of two magnets.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now 1.6 million km²—twice the size of Texas—with 1.8 trillion plastic pieces, outweighing surface fish 6 to 1.

We don’t like to think about lockdown, but it lies behind most of our current problems, including debt, inflation, absenteeism, low productivity, welfarism, the shoplifting epidemic, the conspiracy theories and even the immigration crisis. Paywall down. telegraph.co.uk/gift/a6fe66439…

@Networkrail This is the buzzard sat by its nest on the railway embankment at Carleton Pontefract That you intend to disturb with your planned nightime tree felling -which is ILLEGAL I have written to the Police wildlife unit RSPB the local council + @ChrisGPackham THINK again.

And all you have got to do is let something grow and don't create a biological desert with plastic lawns, paving etc

@ajlamesa As they do in France, Italy, Spain and more.

To keep sales going in the evening, you need to give people the choice of coffee, tea, beer, wine, or liquor.

Our puritanical approach to alcohol is a big problem. In other countries (e.g., Japan, Italy, Mexico), the "coffee shop" or "cafe" can seamlessly switch from caffeine to alcohol in the afternoon, but acquiring the ability to sell booze in most U.S. cities is hard and expensive.

@JamesMelville Adds far more weight to the argument for more regenerative and organic farming, more investment in waste to resources, biomethane, Biochar and fossil free farms. The concept is underway in Cornwall.

Yet more mounting problems for farmers…and consumers with food prices. The Middle East is a major producer of key fertiliser ingredients. The Strait of Hormuz waterway is a key route for fertiliser and for natural gas which is used to produce fertilisers. The halting of traffic has already seen a huge increase in fertiliser prices. This will add even more expense to cash strapped farmers, potentially reduce food yields, restrict production supply and therefore increase food prices further due to higher agricultural costs and supply chain issues not being able to meet consumer demand.

@IIPP_UCL @MazzucatoM @guardian I like @MazzucatoM argument but PSNW does not yet include natural assets. forests, rivers and water systems, fisheries, soil quality, biodiversity, mineral resource, carbon storage (peatlands, forests) have huge. economic value.

✍️ "The key to getting Britain investing again is through an active, entrepreneurial state that sets clearly defined missions." @IIPP_UCL Director @MazzucatoM reflected on the UK Chancellor's recent Spring Statement in the @guardian. 🔗 Read more here: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@SusieTa32510601 @DanicaPriest Or there could be micro data centres, powered by geothermal, as being explored in Cornwall.

Why are these AI data centres not being built on coastal brownfield with access to water, wind and hydropower? The hyper scale at Potters Bar will consume the energy equivalent to 300k homes..it won’t create lots of jobs, it’s a dark site..this ridiculous grey belt definition needs revising @Keir_Starmer

@scottiebateman If only they would ban use of mobile phones without headphones - far more offensive.

Now this wasn’t on my 2026 Airport bingo card. #JustSayNoToPJs 😂🤣❌❌

Well done Italy 🇮🇹 .

@domdyer70 @DanicaPriest Have never been to a Toby Carvery since they chopped down this Oak Tree. #boycotttobycarvery

A centuries-old tree that was chopped down outside a Toby Carvery restaurant by the chain’s owners was still alive at the time, a Forestry Commission investigation has found. The oak tree in north London, believed to be 450 to 500 years old, was cut down on 3 April last year without permission from the council landlord, prompting widespread public anger and leaving Toby Carvery facing eviction.

“It’s time for Gary Lineker and David Beckham and other leading figures in football to speak out on this horror” my interview on @TalkTV with @petercardwell this afternoon @IAPWA

@GCBulletin @keithjwoods Tragedy

Gold Coast residents are being asked to swallow a hefty spoonful of cement with the various masterplans being rolled out across the city, writes Keith Woods. STORY ▶️ bit.ly/4azaAHx @keithjwoods

Important words from Jeremy Clarkson about the decline in many rural services and the loss of so many village pubs. This is causing loneliness and a loss of community spirit.

No-one with a heart and a soul can listen to this and say that introducing 400,000 homes, 1m people (& cats/dogs) plus cars, roads, industrial parks and commerce centres to countryside is good for nature. The ‘forest city’ in West Suffolk is a giant get-rich scam that will displace humans and nature from 45,000 acres of best farmland in a water-stressed region (and no one knows how to fill the Fens reservoir). Plus they want pylons across East Anglia to the coast, which is hugely environmentally destructive. Leave East Anglia alone - or support farm clusters and wildlife charities instead.

@dr_sivaranjani If not airborne, why a mask?

There is absolutely no need to panic at this point about the Nipah virus infection causing a pandemic pls! It is not going to cause a pandemic like COVID did, because it is not airborne. Wash fruits before eating. Do not drink raw date palm sap, especially if the palms are in areas where there are a lot of bats. The virus can stay alive upto 7 days at room temperature. Those of you handling date palm sap as an occupation, pls follow hand hygiene precautions and wear masks. Do not eat undercooked pork. Those of you handling pigs, horses etc, follow hand hygiene precautions. Wear masks. Those of you who are taking care of infected people, please follow doctors' advice about wearing masks and hand hygiene precautions. #nipahvirus #fruitbats #pigs #horses #encephalitis

Can someone show this to Ed Miliband

@TheEconomist Ties in with the decline of the English pub, so often the centre of local communities.

The global decline in wine consumption reflects a fraying of the social fabric that once held Western societies together, reckons one winemaker economist.com/international/…

The Biological Robot approach to disaster aftermath sees all the nice things shut and people told to work harder with no chinks of light. This is not sustainable