As well as this website, I run a wiki about ways to pass on things you’re no longer using to people or organisations who might actually want them. (I suspect I’m the wiki’s only reader as well as its only contributor, but that’s beside the point.)
The Times website was criticised for its coverage of Saturday’s “Mili-band”, the climate change protest where hundreds of people formed a ring around Kingsnorth Power Station in Kent. Robin Henry’s piece was illustrated with a stock photo of helmetted police in a riot situation. (This has now been removed, after reader complaints, and replaced with a stock photo of a power station which may or may not be Kingsnorth.)
Twitter is full of the claim that the Green Party is “anti-science”. Some of the people making that claim are on my own feed; they’re people I like and respect. So I’m disappointed that so many of these self-appointed champions of science seem to be basing their claim on the same Times article, while others don’t bother to give any source at all.
Who cares about journalism? Judging by the turnout at last night’s meeting, the answer is: “More people than you might think.” The Long Room at Oxford Town Hall was packed with local journalists, councillors and members of the public.
Yesterday I joined ten thousand people to march against climate change on the Global Day of Action. The march was one of hundreds of protests happening all over the world.
It’s a shocking statistic, but one that everybody knows: 70% of women are wearing the wrong size bra. Or is it eight out of ten women? Maybe it’s 90%. Either way, every article about bra fitting has to begin with the statement that most women don’t know their real bra size, before going on to explain how you find out your real size.