What we learned this week

I was never very far from a rice paddy where I grew up, farmed the traditional (and exhausting) way. So it’s interesting to see how rice farmers in Vietnam are using new tools such as AI and drones.

My wife was assigned the news story and I was puzzled by it, and so there’s been quite a lot of discussion in my house this week about Britain’s high speed rail line HS2 and why a tunnel to protect bats somehow costs £100 million.

Great to see that Britain’s first major low carbon heat netwo...