Will this be the day when we really start to return to normal. Mighty mouth gobspit Johnson cannot leave it alone. Of course he is correct to wait for 14June, except he hasn’t, almost announcing full opening now.
INTERNET
98% of internet traffic flows through submarine cables. I want to know more. How have they planed for seismic activity? There are probably only a few Trans-Atlantic cables to the UK, how many with Europe? Did Brexit affect these? I am sure the mega important links are via satellite, but are these affected by atmospheric conditions?
CROWD FARMING
I have just received my second purchase from Crowd Farming Both times the deliveries have been fast and the quality excellent. Firstly clementines then olive oil. The price is ok – not the cheapest but organic olive oil for £10 ltr is not bad.
HUGE ICEBERG
A massive iceberg has calved in Antarctica. Probably nothing to do with global warming but impressive at 170km x25km
MOUNT NYIRAGONGO
Geography news! I think the DRC could have done without this! The city of Goma with 2 million people is within 10km of the volcano, lava reached the edges of its airport. The photos as ever with a volcano are impressive as shown here.
THEJAMJAM NEWS
Johnson will tough it out when his erstwhile mate slags him off in Parliament on Wednesday.
The trade agreement with Australia. If it is cheaper to bring beef from Australia than it is to produce our own there is something very wrong with economics. And then the pollution caused, not to mention the hormone treatment of Australian beef. The abject failure of Brexit must be assuaged somehow? And as we come out of the pandemic in this country we have a serious lack of workers.
FOREIGN AID
VACCINES
Bad news. Vaccine supplies to poorer countries and the COVAX scheme are being cut as the worlds biggest supplier in India says it will not be exporting any doses of the AstraZenica vaccine until the end of the year. With possibly millions dying in Africa we should not criticise them too much.
GREAT BRITSH RAILWAYS
If only the government could be believed? They have already refused to reward a popular and profitable, nationalised East Coast Line. Now we have a rebranding, but is their any real subsidence to their plans?
GEOGRAPHY OF POLITICS
Interesting article in todays paper by John Harris. It suggests that clustering is taking place in previously fairly uniform voting areas. Cambridgeshire, Surrey and West Sussex have moved to the left (possibly due to migrants from London). Greens win in East Sussex, Gloucestershire and Kent. Whilst areas in the north have moved to the right. Or is the terminology of left and right out dated. Are people making economic decisions based on their situations, education and beliefs. Just as religion is virtually nonexistent in my world, so the discussions about veganpsm, organic food, poverty and food banks, the wealth gap and the obscenely rich have grown.