What we learned this week

I made the comparison between the government’s ‘stop the boats’ rhetoric and luxury yachts this week, and Aditya Chakrabortty made the same point in the Guardian: “The tories are right, we should stop the boats. Just not the ones they’re talking about.”

Could you (or your school) take part in the Big Plastic Count this year? It’s a citizen investigation into waste plastic which informs campaigns, and it runs from the 11th to the 17th of March.

Having recommended Hannah Ritchie’s book It’s ...