@BBCRadio3 Hello Gillian Moore! I used to work as your assistant at London Sinfonietta, (Jane Slee at the time). Looking forward to hearing your On Repeat choice.
@DeborahMeaden Owen Paterson is my MP. I certainly didn't vote for him. The one time I emailed him on an issue I cared about, I got an automatic response. He even admitted in a piece in the Shropshire star that his staff, not him, read his emails,and that he doesn't do face to face "surgeries"!
@DeborahMeaden Loved it! I have so much in common with you: grew up in West Country; spent most of my student days in nightclubs; lived in Italy for a while. But you're now a multi millionaire and I earn about £15K a year!! But we're both happy, so equal in many ways! 💚
@GeorgeMonbiot I believe you George, and I sent my 20 year old daughter a link to your description of the illness. Having read it, she is now taking it much more seriously and has curtailed her socialising, so thank you! Don't feel your tweets are falling on deaf ears.
Well listening to Ministers on #Marr I'm feeling that the deal is not just not oven ready, they haven't decided what to cook or been to the shops to buy any of the ingredients and they aren't sure how to work the oven because normally they get a takeaway.
@stevesitmail@OilAccount@GeorgeMonbiot Well said, Stevesitmail. Cashiers get perspex screens and controlled numbers, teachers get zero protection. You visit any primary school and it looks just like "business as usual".
@GeorgeMonbiot George, I fully agree. I resigned from my teaching post (age 56), because the Dfe guidance that came out in July was scandalous in it's failure to protect teachers. "Bubbles" totally meaningless when you have siblings across year groups too.
Tunisia did not just beat its October heat record. It absolutely destroyed it by 2.7 °C.
Tunisia could well have been the hottest place on earth yesterday. Very rare.
h/t @extremetemps
"We were expecting there to be high levels of intact ecosystem and wilderness loss, but the results were shocking."
Intact ecosystems the size of Mexico lost worldwide in just 13 years. #EcologicalBreakdown
https://t.co/R5hiNqMO8Q
Unless there is a major shift in dietary trends, by 2050 global farmland will need to expand by 31%.
That means ecological devastation.
Interestingly and disturbingly, almost all of it will be extra pasture, not extra arable:
These are the economics of livestock farming (mostly sheep). The farming makes an average of around £0. Almost all the income comes from subsidies.
Isn't it time @BBCCountryfile et al reflected this reality, rather than peddling the fiction that farmers live by selling sheep?