This is nice.

Reform: The Party Made by the Worst People in Britain For the Worst People in Britain

A gravel bike stands next to fold up seats on a train. There's a neon green strap attached to the seatpost.

Nice little low-carbon transport detail: Wales's new Valley Lines trains have seatbelts for bikes.

Are the studies extolling the health of plant-based diets based on whole populations or male populations or……????

Having reduced my animal protein intake drastically over the last year or so due to its high carbon footprint and association with poorer health, I ended up with v v low ferritin. So my question is….do meta analyses such as EAT lancet take menstruating women into account? 1/2

Everyone Active vs Better: EA app is visually jarring and clunky and membership now no longer includes badminton hire. Boo hiss. Better was better. Who’d a thunk it?

NHK World confirms Japan has perfected a process to extract high purity lithium from dead batteries with a 90 percent recovery rate. Great

'Runcorn' - Andy Yates YouTube video by bertweill

“Runcorn, everybody loves Runcorn/ It’s where the chemicals come from/ and everybody loves chemicals” by Andy Yates www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix-S...

Love everything about this. We need one at WCH in Whitehaven.

Hadrienniels took me out

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Black-headed gull on the surface of a lake

Had a couple of black-headed gulls join us on our evening swim this evening. Was a real privilege.

Government opens consultation on strengthening Nutrient Profiling Model | Sustain The government has opened a public consultation on plans to apply a new version of the Nutrient Profiling Model to advertising and promotions regulations, which would see more junk food products…

ICYMI: Government opens consultation on strengthening Nutrient Profiling Model www.sustainweb.org/news/mar26-n...

But Dyson has his strawberry-picking robots; no?

Eugh

Then this is absolutely brilliant news :)

Is this the solicitor mentioned in Private Eye’s podcast recently?

BREAKING: Andrew Milne has been arrested.

A spokesperson for South Yorkshire Police told The Tribune: "Detectives investigating allegations linked to the purchase and sale of freeholds in Sheffield have arrested a man on suspicion of fraud and blackmail."

Gimme a clue. It’s like spot the ball.

Playmobil Obelix, Asterix and Getafix moving standing stones.

It’s that night of the year when Obelix visits every stone circle to synchronise the clocks. Busy night! Jump forward, people!
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In my constituency we struggled with a similar trust in 2017: Bright Tribe - the story was exposed via a Panorama expose. Such lack of transparency around leadership appointments in MATS and salaries thereof makes MATS open to suspicion. White paper is concerning.

Just had a scroll through the other young bloods at the Adam Smith Institute. That classless society was never really a thing, was it?!

My favourite French portmanteau describes vegan cheese. It merges faux (fake) and fromage (cheese) to get fauxmage

* read on for more cheesy words and phrases from around the world (this thread may not turn out grate, but hopefully it will be gouda ‘nuff)…

Again. Cause we all need a little giggle.

Wondering what leverage in negotiations looks like?

Australia's new FTA with the EU provides 16,830 tonnes of tariff free access for beef.

Australia's FTA with the UK, completed with a desperate Johnson administration, provided 35,000 tonnes tariff free, rising to unlimited over 15 years.

If fertiliser isn't moving through the Strait of Hormuz in two weeks' time, we won't be debating any more, we'll be sending in aid. If it's not moving in four weeks, we'll be managing instability. It's time to act on the agricultural calendar, not the diplomatic one.

Grim. Every week this goes on is compounding the collective price paid. www.ft.com/content/c139...

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

‘As a couple, Andrew and Sarah Ferguson have always been too stupid to understand the vulnerability of the institution that supports them, and they began wrecking it from the inside as soon as they met.’

Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, in the next issue.

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which when coupled with lower stocking rates around the world, thus keeping meat prices high, having a legumey main meal twice a week will be a no-brainer. Meat will and can still be on the menu but we need to diversify our proteins. That’s my take, anyway.

I reckon that people need to become more familiar with beans and pulses dishes - they are still quite alien to many folk. But that can change. I predict a renaissance in fibre appreciation, (improved mood and metabolism) 1/2