Isabel Hilton @isabelhilton Twitter profile

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Isabel Hilton

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2 years

Delhi is shut down because of toxic air and the Indian delegation in Glasgow at #COP26 is still objecting to suggestions that coal should be phased out. Please join up the thinking

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I just heard @BBCnews say that the global heatwaves all had different causes and the fact that there were so many of them was coincidence. Is climate denial now official BBC policy?

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‘Nazis didn’t fall out of the sky in January ’33’: The Holocaust Museum’s director on warning signs of fascism

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Boris Johnson to EU: give in or the UK will kneecap itself

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Brazil shows what can happen when climate risk is not taken seriously: record deforestation contributes to record drought, which is devastating agriculture, which leads to economic loss. Hydro, 65 % of energy, also lacks water so energy fails and prices are up 40%. Impacts spiral

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@carolecadwalla @malinimehra @Jeremy_Hunt He is also the man who steered a fragmentation and creeping privatisation of the NHS that is now costing us dear as well as drastic cuts to social care. So let’s curb our enthusiasm

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3 years

@BylineTV @Byline_Media @Otto_English The point about soap operas is that every soap needs a villain. The tabloids have cast Megan in that role -- "designing women" are stock villain characters -- and she will never be allowed to escape that characterisation. She was right to quit

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1 year

Tim Martin, owner of the popular low-cost pub chain Wetherspoons, was among the hardest campaigners for Brexit. Now, as he shuts 32 of his pubs, he is urging the government to increase EU migration. It’s beyond irony and into farce.

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@foxnewsradio Wouldn't he have a better chance for the literature prize? Or is there a Very Stable Genius special category?

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4 years

Opinions that didn’t age well “When Taiwan decides that it’s now time to become part of China, or recognize Chinese sovereignty – and I think this will happen much more quickly than people anticipate – it will be done on the basis of one country, two systems. “ Martin Jacques

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6 years

Donald Trump is so popular in the UK that the PM has to keep the location of dinner secret. In fact, the challenge is to keep him completely out of sight throughout

UK business leaders invited to dine with President Trump

Location of banquet remains undisclosed ahead of controversial visit

www.ft.com

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Isabel Hilton

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3 years

China to John Kerry: give us what we want or we will burn the world down.

China drives John Kerry talks beyond climate change to US relations

Washington’s climate envoy meets Vice-Premier Han Zheng and top diplomat Yang Jiechi via videoconference after foreign minister made clear cooperation on global warming depends on meeting Beijing...

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2 months

Wang Yi's speech in Munich was a wonderful example of China appearing to live in a parallel universe. This passage in particular :

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4 years

Are we supposed to believe they have only just noticed that the policy they pushed is a monumental act of self harm?

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4 years

Daily Mail is *furious* with the UK govt today. Pages of froth leading to this editorial: "Brexit was supposed to herald a dawn of sovereignty, free from the shackles of the EU. Instead, we risk becoming a solo example of leaden incompetence." Penny finally dropping? Unlikely

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2 years

China criticises “Cold War” mentality. Can you think of anything more reminiscent of the Cold War than a Russian invasion of a former Soviet satellite? But apparently that’s ok.

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2 years

Thank you John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua for persisting in the face of very difficult odds to get renewed US-China cooperation on climate. The world’s two biggest emitters just turned #Cop26 around

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3 years

Music lovers are getting excited at the thought that @realDonaldTrump might now have time to resume that career as a concert pianist, so cruelly interrupted by the need to serve the nation.

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3 years

First they came for Hong Kong's future. Now they are coming for its past.

The fight to save Hong Kong's past from its future

After nearly two decades, the history museum's Hong Kong Story exhibition is closing. When it reopens after two years, the story it tells will be unrecognisable.

www.smh.com.au

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Isabel Hilton

@isabelhilton

4 years

Important new regulations to govern UK freight traffic and customs clearance form Dec 31st. Please circulate widely

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3 years

UK Press Awards this year sponsored by Huawei. That would be for China's outstanding contribution to press freedom I expect

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4 years

If Cummings was just testing whether he could drive when he went to Barnard Castle, why did he take the whole family? Makes no sense

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2 years

Bolivia once had three presidents in one day. Better weather though

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7 years

@LeoHickman Amazing that you can build a political position on hating energy efficiency

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2 years

Some days you just want to hug the postman

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4 years

No wonder one Tory MP, a former minister, told me in despair this week: “This is a cabinet of fools led by a hollow narcissist who is nothing without his svengali.” Whew

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4 years

You won’t hear this from the WHO. Caixin is doing heroic reporting

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2 years

“In these challenging times, my Government will play a leading role in defending democracy and freedom across the world.” Honestly, I would settle for them not destroying democracy at home.

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4 months

absolutley.. it is a feature of the UK system that it all but impossible to get remedy for criminal mismanagement by state or affiliated entities: think of the blood scandal; Hillsborough; Grenfell Tower. It is not lack of coverage but lack of political action.

Kate

@katebevan

4 months

Bit tired of "ooh bad journalists didn't cover the Post Office scandal". It's been covered for years: there have been two Panoramas, coverage of the court cases going back years, Radio 4 has done a series, Private Eye has been all over it, Computer Weekly has been on it for years

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1 year

A poster on a North London telephone box: Baltic enterprise takes advantage of sagging fortunes in Silicon Valley.

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3 years

A disappointing move by Merkel. Weak agreement lacks key guarantees for the EU and rewards bad behaviour in Beijing

Theresa Fallon

@TheresaAFallon

3 years

#CAI : My take for @dwnews on the EU China investment agreement.

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Isabel Hilton

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4 years

Great to see China Dialogue's beautiful new website up and running for all you need to know about climate, environment, biodiversity, China's carbon footprint, BRI and many other things

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3 years

China is the biggest public backer of coal, but Chinese finance was only involved in 13% of coal power capacity outside China between 2013 and 2019. Much of the rest came from US investors like Vanguard, BlackRock and the Capital Group.

President Xi declares end to Chinese support for new coal power abroad

Climate campaigners are celebrating as an end to Chinese public backing leaves few sources of finance for new coal plants around the world

www.climatechangenews.com

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2 months

and this: "With China’s active mediation, a historic reconciliation was reached between Saudi Arabia and Iran, setting off a “wave of reconciliation” across the Middle East." That "ongoing wave of reconciliation" is a relief. I worried there might be some trouble in the region.

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11 years

Argentine government rumoured to be attempting to take control of Clarin Group, thus asserting control of independent press. Serious if true

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1 year

@DoctorVive @Twitter @TwitterSupport They said the same to me when I reported death threats: they said they were within the community guidelines. I asked them for the guidelines on acceptable death threats.. still waiting for a reply.

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@breeallegretti You have to wonder about the judgment of a man who sends picture s of his genitals to a stranger. Not quite the level of sophistication to expect from legislators.

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3 years

Thank you to @KaiserKuo for today's favourite word, Hansplaining

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3 years

Let’s hear it for Brexit! ⁦ @BorisJohnson ⁩

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4 years

Not sure that the news that Boris Johnson plans to take “personal charge” of the government is reassuring. It does beg the question of what we have been paying him for up till now, though.

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4 years

this epidemic was allowed to spread for more than 40 days .. the main efforts ..by provincial and city governments in particular, were focused not on containment of the epidemic, but on containment & suppression of information about (it). #coronovirus

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4 years

Does anyone else find it completely inappropriate that tax payers who are already paying #BorisJohnson salary and all of his expenses should be obliged to pay to read newspaper articles in which he announces government policy? Try being prime minister for a week instead of a hack

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6 years

It’s the ideologue’s classic defence: as in communism is perfect, but never implemented

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6 years

NEW: As Airbus threatens to leave the UK, @Nigel_Farage admits "Brexit done badly will leave us in a worse position than we were in before, Brexit on its own isn't some magic cure." Erm, hang on a minute? 🤔

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3 years

chinadialogue is fifteen years old this year: for 15 years it has been bringing Chinese environmental thinkers, policy makers and writers to readers around the world. Here is one among many from the early years

“The rich consume and the poor suffer the pollution”

Pan Yue, deputy director of China's State Environmental Protection Administration, sparked debate with his recent essay On Socialist Ecological Civilisation. Here, he tells Zhou Jigang about the...

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2 years

Essential reading as ever

Chris Grey 🇺🇦

@chrisgreybrexit

2 years

Suffocating unreality. New post on my Brexit&Beyond Blog. As Johnson's time ends in malevolent indolence, an analysis of Sunak's boilerplate Brexit claims & how Truss owes her position to performative trade policy. But Brexit is too big for either of them:

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5 years

Hello China. Please stop expanding the world's coal footprint. With just 12 years to bend the emissions curve you are either saddling your partner with stranded assets or tipping us all over into catastrophic climate change.

Diálogo Chino

@DialogoChinoEN

5 years

The growing Chinese presence in Brazilian energy: #Brazil 's biggest coal-producing state is looking to China for help expanding its mines and create a #coal gasification centre.

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2 months

seeks political settlement and opposes using force;" It is tempting to ask how many of these pledges China has shared with its limitless friend Russia.

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2 years

@GoodLawProject I am enchanted by the Met explanation that they do not investigate past crimes. So the entire force is focussed on solving crimes that have not yet been committed? Makes as much sense as anything this gvt says.

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4 years

This is definitely awkward.. and revealing

🇺🇦Hong Kong World City☔️

@HKWORLDCITY

4 years

‼️WOW‼️ Bruce Aylward/ @WHO did an interview with HK's @rthk_news & when asked about #Taiwan he pretended not to hear the question. The journalist asks again & he hangs up! She calls back & he said "Well, we've already talked about China." ENJOY+SHARE THE MADNESS! #CoronaVirus

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4 years

China is due to host the 2020 conference on biodiversity. Can it stop its own extinctions?

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7 years

Saudi women allowed to drive. Just in time for the driverless car revolution

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6 years

@MarinaHyde @GeorgeMonbiot Donald trump is the biggest insult to the office of the president

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4 years

Now the good news: SE Asian #coal 's perfect storm: “Communities are rejecting it due to the high levels of pollution, renewable energy technology is undercutting it in quality and cost, and financial institutions are backing away fast.” via @chinadialogue

Southeast Asia turning away from coal power

New coal power capacity has fallen sharply in the region as renewables become more competitive, finds report

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3 years

Is anybody surprised by the experience of #MeganMarkle ? The British prime minister seemed to think it acceptable to write about “piccaninnies with watermelon smiles” in one of his racist columns. No apology ever recorded @BorisJohnson @BBCNews

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2 years

Sad to read of the death of Jonathan Spence, eminent scholar of China who brought insight to generations of students and thousands of readers beyond the academy.

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4 years

Pandemic puts Beijing's loans at high risk: "one thing is clear: the #BRI is suffering a body blow. With so many recipient countries facing economic peril, the calls for debt relief will only grow, depriving Mr Xi’s grand design of forward momentum."

China faces wave of calls for debt relief on ‘Belt and Road’ projects

Bankers will consider suspending interest payments but writing off loans is unlikely

www.ft.com

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5 years

Why #Xinjiang matters to China and how historic investment patterns created a divided region

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5 old white men who don't pay tax in this country control 80% of our media. @misterhsk @Byline_Media

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4 years

And as the pm says, other countries are looking at UK succes

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3 years

Great to see @chinadialogue 's key role featured in this account of 9 key moments in the development of China's climate policy

Analysis: Nine key moments that changed China’s mind about climate change - Carbon Brief

Over the past year, China’s president Xi Jinping has made three key commitments to tackle climate change.

www.carbonbrief.org

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2 months

"We have worked to explore a Chinese way of addressing hotspot issues, one that advocates for non-interference in internal affairs and opposes imposing one’s will on others; upholds impartiality and justice and opposes pursuing selfish interests;"

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4 years

I think you know where we are

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4 years

5G is here, but where are you? Follow us for up-to-date developments on 5G in your country.

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@isaacstonefish Mao also remarked that China would win a nuclear war with the USSR because China could afford to lose 100 million people

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6 years

Guess who isn’t boycotting the Saudi Davos in the Desert? It’s our own high principled @LiamFox . How many dismembered journalists would it take, Dr Fox?

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Isabel Hilton

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4 years

The next time you hear Johnson and co talking about "our NHS" read this. Just in case we forget

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3 years

Breathtaking rewrite. Do they think we don’t remember? “evidence is growing that the pathogen emerged in multiple locations around the world, Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday. “We raced to report the epidemic first,” he said in an interview”

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@SCMPNews

3 years

Coronavirus emerged in many places, Chinese foreign minister says

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1 year

In a homage to the strange moment we are living in, I asked an AI bot to write me a sonnet to weather balloons. Here's what it produced. Not quite Shakespeare, but not bad! Oh wondrous orbs that soar the sky so high, Invisible friends that bring us hope and cheer, 1/4

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Isabel Hilton

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3 years

Soviet joke: An American tells a Russian that the United States is so free that he can stand in front of the White House and yell, “To hell with Ronald Reagan.” The Russian replies: “This is nothing. I can stand in front of the Kremlin and yell, ‘To hell with Ronald Reagan,’ too.

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4 years

A wet market is just a farmer’s market. The problem is unhygienic conditions and the mix of live species within the markets. A global ban on fresh markets is unenforceable and pointless. Clean up, don’t prohibit.

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Group of bipartisan lawmakers call for global "wet markets" ban amid coronavirus crisis

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2 years

Congratulations to @goldkorn @KaiserKuo on the new name and logo. The logo looks curiously familiar. Just a coincidence, I expect.

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3 years

BBC 5.00pm headlines announce the SNP and Greens reach a power sharing deal at Stormont. Now that would be a story @BBCNews tell us more!

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@isabelhilton

2 years

China suspends #climate cooperation with the US. This is completely irresponsible. Together they account for nearly 40% of global emissions and have a duty to the rest of life on the planet to shoulder their global responsibilities, regardless of bilateral tensions.

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4 years

Wishing everyone a very happy #EarthDay50 and better times ahead

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2 years

How much longer will China go on complaining about “Cold War mentality” while pretending not to see the real war of choice waged by Xi Jinping’s “best friend”?

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4 years

Now that the world is paying more attention to #Xinjiang and Disney is criticised for filming there, it is worth recalling that one of the world's largest and most highly privileged companies chose Xinjiang for a giant corporate party, only two years ago.

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4 years

Decisive ⁦ @BorisJohnson ⁩ insults Scotland for banning public events. Then does u-turn and bans them, after many other countries do. Inspiring leadership.

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2 years

Tory leadership candidates who propose cutting the green levy please note: David Cameron did this and added 2.5 bn to UK energy bills. Is this Tory Groundhog Day? Do none of them read?

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2 years

Warmest congratulations to Jacob Rees Mogg on his new appointment as Minister for Lowering Standards. We are confident he will do it brilliantly

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I’d hate to think the large Russian donations to the Conservative Party had influenced the notable weakness of the sanctions. Perhaps time to publish the Russia report

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Exactly a year ago: Tuesday, December 1, marks one year since the first known COVID patient showed symptoms of the disease in the Hubei provincial capital of Wuhan, according to a key study in the Lancet medical journal.

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The secret police get control of staff appointments at the state broadcaster and both conceal it for decades, lying to maintain the secrecy. Romania? the USSR? Er no, .. the UK, actually. They only stopped when they were caught, and even then.. ..

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The sight of the Taliban wing of the Tory party trying to make a parliamentary researcher into a national security threat from China is ridiculous. He was arrested six months ago and given police bail — which doesn’t sound as though he was bringing the nation to its knees.

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3 years

Long expected, but welcome nevertheless

President Xi declares end to Chinese support for new coal power abroad

Climate campaigners are celebrating as an end to Chinese public backing leaves few sources of finance for new coal plants around the world

www.climatechangenews.com

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3 years

Influencers say they were offered money to discredit the Pfizer vaccine. In France, some suspect Russia is behind …

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10 years

let's all congratulate Huawei on the gender balance in their UK student work experience programme http://t.co/yLp2YXPm1c

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Afroz Shah is a plastic clean up hero but wouldn't it be great if he and his hundreds of volunteers and helpers didn't have to keep doing this?

Afroz shah

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Week 312. Our ocean cleanup in remote mangroves off Mumbai coast. Marine debris are a threat to marine life. Oceans have become graveyards of plastic pollution. Fishes ingest it.Marine birds swallow it. 2400 kgs of marine debris plucked from the ocean. @PoojaB1972 @UNEP

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Well said, professor. China’s Belt and Road Initiative should stop financing new coal power via @financialtimes

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3 years

Every truck M&S sends to the EU needs 70 pages of documentation. If one page is the wrong colour ink the whole truck is rejected. They now employ 14 vets just to do paperwork.. 500 products are banned entirely. Isn’t #Brexit wonderful?

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3 years

Honoured and delighted to be part of this great series @chinadialogue @BelleTimsit

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4 years

@AmbLINSongtian If the Chinese authorities would make available the swabs they took from the Wuhan market before they scrubbed it clean, they could settle this. Er, you did take swabs, didn’t you? As in epidemiology 1-0-1?

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I still find it astonishing, given the US battled the USSR for more than 40 years, the Republican party is now helping Putin in his ambition to rebuild it. What possible US interest does this serve?

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Who was the star guest at the opening of the Asian Games in Hangzhou? None other than Bashar al Assad, celebrated as a victim of US aggression and a good friend of China. Lavishly covered here:

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Isabel Hilton

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complained about sharks fin being served in Hangzhou hotel. The answer from the food and beverage manager? "Don't worry, it's fake"

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In its first 7 months, the new (BREXIT) trade deal reduced Britain’s exports to the EU by 14 percent and imports by 24 percent, according to the UK Trade Policy Observatory, a research group. That’s about £44 billion in lost trade.

What a Year of Brexit Brought U.K. Companies: Higher Costs and Endless Forms (Published 2021)

While the worst of the Brexit trade disruptions are over, British exports to the European Union are down and companies are frustrated.

www.nytimes.com

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Isabel Hilton

@isabelhilton

3 years

Guess who said this: "Donald Trump has the courage and wit to look at 'green' hysteria and say: no deal". It was the ever-inspiring former ed of the #Telegraph , Charles Moore. How much damage have these people done to public discourse?

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Mounting costs and red tape hit UK exporters three years after Brexit. In agrifood, the UK continues to have worse access to the EU than countries such as New Zealand, …. via @FT

Mounting costs and red tape hit UK exporters three years after Brexit

Easier for many companies to trade with distant countries than with EU, British Chambers of Commerce warns

www.ft.com

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Isabel Hilton

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2 years

Oh the joys of #Brexit .. nearly 2 hours in the non EU queue at Stockholm. And then asked if I have an invitation letter. To visit Sweden. Wishing all this UK families a happy half term break.

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3 years

The complete series of the investigation into China's relationship with #Venezuela . Eye opening and extraordinary work.

Venezuela’s dance with China: a good relationship?

A collaborative journalism project on the economic and political relationship between Venezuela and China, patched together from official documents

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Isabel Hilton

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Brexiteers should not be so modest. Brexit is already transforming Britain. it is poorer, nastier, more isolated and less respected than it was. It has lost influence, prospects and attraction.. a pretty impressive achievement in just a few years.

Chris Grey 🇺🇦

@chrisgreybrexit

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There's plenty of nonsense in this article, as well as a few grains of truth. But the most striking thing is that, even now, the ideas about how "Brexit could still transform Britain" are still so vague and ambiguous. The sole proposals in this long article are these: 1/11

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a recommended read on theUK's drift to authoritarianism

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