Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵

1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody

Superb piece: How the hell did customer service get so bad? ft.com/content/0a5d30… via @ft

Just thinking about the chain restaurants that were good before they expanded and centralised kitchens and used more frozen food to cut costs: Pho, Wagamama, Busaba even Cafe Rouge used to be pretty good

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Just went to a what I thought would be a short and easy local journalism job, meeting a pub darts team made up of military veterans. Super easy article, surely, I've written a dozen such stories in the past.
But this was not that story, and nothing short of wonderful

New: London has a shortage of homes, but it doesn't have a shortage of golf courses.

In fact, London’s 95 golf courses take up more land than the entire borough of Brent.

Here's the case for building on some of them.

samdumitriu.com/p/homes-or-golf

The US can quickly resume providing military aid to let Ukraine stabilize the front lines near the current locations. Or it can let the Russians defeat the Ukrainian military and drive toward the NATO borders from the Black Sea to central Poland. There is no third option. (1/3)

This plaque - last line: 'the Right of Juries to give their Verdict according to their Convictions' - is on the wall of the Old Bailey. But write that on a piece of cardboard today and stand outside a court and you may be sent to jail. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/6570…

150 years ago today, at precisely 8pm, the world of art changed forever.

What happened? A small, independent art exhibition opened in Paris.

It was a financial failure and barely 3,000 people went — but, in time, these artists would come to be known as 'the Impressionists'...

One of the main reasons renewable energy is going to triumph in the end is, IMO, not well understood by the general populace, so here's a quick 🧵on it.

Over time, the price of fossil fuels is determined by two forces pulling in opposite directions. On one hand ...

The fact that pieces like this are now being written should bring shame and shudder to the West.

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗽𝗮𝗱 | Your Free Invitation✉️

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Are there other countries that hate their own strengths as much as the UK?

In 2017, I did something dumb. There was a total solar eclipse passing through the US, but I was in NY, far from the path. Was I really gonna get on a plane to see a cool thing for two minutes? Nah. I had shit to do.

The day came. I put my stupid glasses on and saw the sun…

sad that Tessa Jowell is not around to hear all the love today for SureStart (re @IFS report ifs.org.uk/publications/s… - NB impact on SEND is so striking given current broken system; more early diagnosis, fewer teens needing intensive support)

I peaked as a researcher when I visited Brooks's Club in London and found this 1783 wager in their archive.

Lots of mis/disinformation about healthcare spending floating around on here, so I'm just putting this out there.

A fantastic and momentous day welcoming HRH The Princess Royal to officially open our 300mm #semiconductor fabrication plant at Pragmatic Park.

A big thank you to those that have been part of our journey to date and helped us achieve this milestone!

The Royal Family #pragmaticpark

👏Member companies of SETsquared Bristol were responsible for the creation of more than 300 new roles in 2023.

Of the 300 new jobs created, 200 of them were in the South West region. Get the full story👇 setsquared.co.uk/setsquared-bri…

An exciting discovery from Scotland - this 1800-year-old slice of pizza was recently unearthed in the ruins of a broch. The dish was introduced to the region c. AD 83 by the Romans. Fragments of oil jars found nearby suggest that the Picts deep fried rather than baked their pizza