Edward Davey

Ocean with David Attenborough review: Age has done little to quell the naturalist’s intellectual curiosity and childlike wonder This engaging portrait of sea-life is being released around the world on his 99th birthday

Ocean with David Attenborough review: Age has done little to quell the naturalist’s intellectual curiosity and childlike wonder – The Irish Times

Today, the @ec.europa.eu is hosting an event on EU farming

Yet, food systems are not part of the discussion

We risk making our policies narrow & unable to ensure decent livelihoods for ALL farmers & affordable, healthy diets 4 people on a thriving 🌍

The EU must #ThinkFoodSystems!

#EUAgriVision

If you'd like to stay informed about EU Food Policy Coalition participants' activities around food, farming, fisheries & aquaculture policy issues ... we've got you covered!
A must-follow #starterpack 🤓👇

(and please shout in case we forgot someone...🤔)
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#FoodSystems

Die Walküre, Royal Opera review - total music drama Wagner’s universe, in the second of his Ring operas which brings semi-humans on board to challenge the gods, matches exaltation and misery, terror and tragedy – and throws down a gauntlet to singers, ...

If you can pull off a 'Walküre', there's no greater experience in the opera house. And between them director Barrie Kosky, conductor Antonio Pappano, singing actors and orchestra absolutely did. theartsdesk.com/opera/die-wa...

Humble Francis A memory of transcendent humanity in Rome

"Humble Francis: A memory of transcendent humanity in Rome"
Others, more knowledgeable than me, will write memorials today. I want to share a single detail from one day in Rome, in January 2018.
snyder.substack.com/p/humble-fra...

What will an emboldened Netanyahu do next? Many Israelis fear a constitutional crisis is looming — but the prime minister also has his sights set on Iran

What will an emboldened Netanyahu do next?

https://www.ft.com/content/f7f43ca2-f3f2-4159-bf64-b49f64eb8199

Listen to @worldresources.bsky.social's Ke Wang on @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social's Circular Economy Show. Learn:

⚡ Why the circular economy is important in the energy transition

⚡ How this is fundamentally driven by economics and competitiveness

www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/podcasts/ep-...

New @wriclimate.bsky.social research finds that human behavior change can meaningfully cut #greenhousegas emissions and fight #climatechange — but without policy & industry support, only a small fraction of this is possible in practice.

Read more: go.wri.org/climate-impact-bl

☀️Parts of India are facing temperatures up to 40°C (104°F) this week, with early-season heatwaves becoming more frequent and intense.

♨️But some solutions can help cool cities down, even as temperatures climb. Learn about the ways cities can get cooler🔗 go.wri.org/cool-cities-bl

📝A draft deal was struck through the International Maritime Organization, requiring ships to pay a fee based on their fuel mix carbon intensity.

❌🌎While a step forward, the deal falls short of the ambition the climate crisis demands, says WRI Ocean's @tomolamola.bsky.social: bit.ly/4ihtTa6

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”

Incredibly beautiful. And yet never nostalgic or sentimental.
Perfect book to read on a long Easter weekend.
@herdyshepherd.bsky.social

found it

sabeel.org/category/lat...

will donate

@willdalrymple.bsky.social william

am rereading your wonderful book

does Sabeel the charity still exist?

3/3 To conclude our series on Ireland & Empire, Anita and William are joined by the brilliant @fotoole.bsky.social , author of We Don’t Know Ourselves, to reflect on how Irish society has transformed since the 1950s, and how the country’s colonial past informs its future. @empirepoduk.bsky.social

This is Europe's fault

super novel

Opinion | Poof! There Goes America’s Competitive Advantage in a Warming World The Trump administration’s governance — and the president’s unhinged trade war on the entire world — has hurt America’s ability to meet climate goals.

The president’s economically ruinous trade war will also be a disaster for America’s role in the fight against climate change. I wrote about it for @nytopinion.nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

holiday reading

Image of the cover of "Golden Hill" by Francis Spufford. Shows parts of pictures of C18 boats off Manhattan island, a painting of a social scene and a map of old New York.

I just read "Golden Hill" by Francis Spufford. What a glorious, engrossing, hilarious (when it wants to be) novel.

Praise in The Guardian from Francis Spufford for John Crowley, Ursula K Le Guin and Katherine Addison’s ‘The Goblin Emperor’. Makes me want to read everything on his list.

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show ‘Our Kids Are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know Of’ | The Ezra Klein Show

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

@jonathanhaidt.bsky.social discusses the parents revolution on smartphones that his book “The Anxious Generation” has started.
open.spotify.com/episode/1hKD...

youtu.be/RN2GhPal4qA?...

Can't believe I listened to Nobel prize winning economist specialising in trade on a Saturday night!
#TrumpTariffs
But recommend for those still imagining/hoping there is some 'masterplan or deeper strategy'
- there's just "layers and layers of wrongness"
"Never been anything like this craziness"🧐

The drawings that captured Sudan’s genocide Children caught up in the atrocities in Darfur drew the horrors they witnessed. The pictures are now used as legal evidence—but what happened to their...

For Abdulsalam, a boy caught up in the Darfur genocide, “the world unravelled in a day.” @imaanirfan.bsky.social speaks to survivors of the 2003 Darfur genocide.
www.prospectmagazine...

Cornwall

As many people made their way to prayer on Palm Sunday, Russia launched rockets at #Sumy. It shows once again: Putin underscores with blood that he seeks not peace but destruction. In the heart of Europe, he continues to bomb civilians. We stand firmly with #Ukraine. @abaerbock.diplo.de

Climate Change Could Become a Global Economic Disaster New warnings from financial firms and insurers point to a future defined by profound risks to the global economy from heat, storms and other disasters.

"In the United States alone, climate change is expected to wipe away $1.47 trillion in value from real estate."

Between his tariffs and anti-climate policies, Trump is a one-man wrecking ball to our economy.

Bach: St Matthew Passion by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Issuu

My Matthew Passion notes (in 3 parts) are here; a joy to write. WHAT A PIECE, I'll never tire of it. That halo of strings every time Christ sings – and the way it's absent when he asks why God has forsaken him, accentuating the sense of loss. Incredible. Go on, have a read issuu.com/orchestraenl...

Marvellous St Matthew Passion from the OAE at the Royal Festival Hall tonight. Particularly enjoyed the rapport between director Jonathan Cohen and Evangelist Nick Pritchard – who was so assured it was like watching a top athlete acing an assault course without breaking a sweat.