Just three weeks after the world’s governments signed a deal to cut Co2 emissions to slow global warming, BA has announced that it has been forced to mothball a project to create 16m gallons of jet fuel from London’s rubbish every year. It cites a number of reasons, (speaking to the Guardian) including low crude oil prices,… Continue reading
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A new age of rural railways promises big benefits
As well as building better defences against floods, in response to the destructive storms of December 2015, the UK government, and the governments of Wales and Scotland, should consider building new railway lines. Some of these lines would back up routes closed by the waters. There is one obvious candidate for a new link. Rail… Continue reading →
Rough Guides rates Hull, UK City of Culture 2017, top for 2016 too
Kingston-upon-Hull, or Hull as everybody knows it, has been chosen by Rough Guides as one of its top 10 cities of the world to visit in 2016. As it notes, “things are finally looking up for Hull”, far out in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the East, which is why so few of us go there. It’s… Continue reading →
A Child’s Christmas – in New York and Swansea
This Christmas season, 2015, Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” is being performed in two very appropriate places (as well as in many other venues in the English speaking world) – in Swansea, where Dylan was born in 1914, and New York, where he died in 1953. The Swansea production, at the Dylan Thomas… Continue reading →
A Child’s Christmas in Wales comes to Dylan’s home.
Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales is set in epic snow “as white as Lapland”. This year, 2010, snow fit for Dylan’s famous story fell on Swansea.
Continue reading →From old Eastern Bloc crock to cool powerhouse – Leipzig’s soar story
Leipzig, the great city of Bach and Mendelson, has made a remarkable, if belated, advance since the days of the Monday Prayer meetings in St Nicholas Church (Nikolaikirche), the peaceful cradle to the peaceful overthrow of communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall. (This is an account of my recent visit.) At first the economy… Continue reading →