Tessa Thorniley

Campaigners fear a proposed flood defence scheme to protect thousands of homes and businesses could pollute Ferris Meadow lake, in Shepperton. More here: bbc.in/3NfNQRO

#RiverThamesScheme #SheppertonOpenWater #SheppertonLake #Thamespollution

A beautiful day and location but a heartbreaking theme. This morning BBC Radio Surrey's Clare Cowan interviewed Emma Pattinson, owner of Shepperton Open Water swim about plans to channel water from the River Thames through this magical gem of lake. @sheppertonswim, @BBCSurrey

'Beautiful' River Lim 'ecologically dead' after sewage spillages kill the ecosystem - Dorset Live … how long are we going to tolerate this bloody vandalism at the altar of greed?? dorset.live/news/dorset-ne…

This week, along with @FCDOGovUK colleagues, we had an excellent interaction with participants in the @CheveningFCDO South Asia Journalism Programme, 7 of who are from 🇮🇳 . Good questions, good discussion, new ideas and new friendships (& a long time Twitter connection 😄)

Mis/disinformation is a challenge across the world. Great to talk countering information disorder this week with the @CheveningFCDO South Asia Journalism Programme at @UoW_CAMRI

Chevening South Asia Journalism Fellows spend time with @csbuckler @ChrisPageTV @NewsDeclan and @BBCRichardM in @BBCNewsNI before joining @BBCJayneMcC in Parliament Buildings, Belfast

Conference on Chinese art and literature in the Republican era - with Paul Bevan, Craig Clunas, Jeremy Taylor, Ann Witchard, Huang Xuelei, Annabella Massey and Margaret Hillenbrand - in Oxford, 14 June 2023 - this looks amazing!

Now that my mother is dead, and there's no danger she'll be deported to China, I can reveal that she was a "stateless" person. My grandfather took out Chinese nationality for his children in 1940. After the war she was left in limbo, eventually forgotten by the Home Office.

@cliffordcoonan decode39.com/4217/china-pol…

Why is there a Chinese police outpost on Dublin’s Capel Street? irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/0…

Chris Patten speaking with Isabel Hilton at UCL. 4th July, 6pm: Chris Patten on his Hong Kong Diaries — The Orwell Festival orwellfestival.co.uk/booking/p/chri…

Trying to solve for the problem of fake news today is like trying to design pikes to resist cavalry charges when the enemy has already developed tanks.

BOTD: Chiang Yee 蒋彝 , The Silent Traveller (1903-1977) - see the new book “Chiang Yee and his circle. Chinese artistic and m intellectual life in Britain 1930-1950” (2022) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Not a bad first day…

Ok so I finally get to reveal what we have been working on. It's a new iPhone app, called FT Edit, that gives you eight wonderful pieces of @FT journalism a day. You get it free for a month, then 99p a month for the next six months. Find it here: apps.apple.com/in/app/ft-edit…

Our latest #OpenAccess publication on #CulturalChina w @seaghkehoe @GerdaWielander @CCCblogUoW showcases pieces from the China Visual Art Project archive at @UniWestArc @UniWestminster. Check out Chapter 8 on Chinese propaganda posters! uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/chapters/…

A true Christmas special with a line up of stars @mhockx @chinesesarah @GBLee and Kaming Wu! Now open for registration!

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