Plastics 'crisis' is costing $1.5tn in global deaths from heart failure to dementia new report confirms Less than 10% of plastic is recycled Plastic set to triple to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060 More than 16,000 chemicals used in plastics phys.org/news/2025-08-p…

Here's one delayed flight I would have enjoyed. Jazz group gives spontaneous in-flight performance amid delays goodmorningamerica.com/travel/story/f… via Good Morning America

Rule #1 in crisis comms is; Anything you say can and will be used by the media. Rule #2; There is no such thing as off the record

66 years ago today, Miles Davis released “Kind of Blue” Kind of Blue is regarded by many as a true masterpiece, the greatest jazz album ever recorded, and one of the best albums of all time… But what made the album so extraordinary? A thread 🧵

I was lucky to see Miles three times. The first time at the Edmonton Jazz Festival of all places.

Best. Headline. Ever. "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married"

Vindication! All the nasty editors who yelled at me when I was a young reporter were wrong.

"There are no mistakes, only happy accidents"

Printing presses kept their letters in cases. Capital letters went in the upper case. Smaller letters went in the lower case. This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’ Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press? MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

Along with fat fingers

So true.

Words matter

I agree with every word in this post. I was a news guy at the TV station in Edmonton where SCTV was produced. She was kind, funny, smart and down-to-earth. A great talent.

Great news photos are often a combination of skill and luck

Jonathan Pie at his best. "The Andrew formerly known as Prince"

The UK's delicate deal to get the Bayeux Tapestry loaned from France - a diplomatic coup or cultural gamble? news.sky.com/story/the-uks-…

As I used to say to reporters in various newsrooms; "Interesting take."

Happens to the worst of us! 🤣

I still have it - in a box with cassette mix tapes.

Are you ready to be wilder? youtu.be/8J1VH1MBXm0