Barbara Kiser (@barbkiser) 's Twitter Profile
Barbara Kiser

@barbkiser

Editor, writer, ex-commissioning ed. of Nature Books and Arts. Still in pursuit of joined-up thinking.

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Discover🌻Bedford Park🌻with the young WB Yeats📱 (@yeatsbedfordpk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ellen Terry and EW Godwin had two children, Edith and Edward, who adopted the surname Craig on discovering Ailsa Craig between Galloway and the Antrim Coast. Edward Gordon Craig👇became one of Yeats's leading Abbey Theatre stage designers and, later in life, moved to🌻#BedfordPk

Ellen Terry and EW Godwin had two children, Edith and Edward, who adopted the surname Craig on discovering Ailsa Craig between Galloway and the Antrim Coast. 
Edward Gordon Craig👇became one of Yeats's leading <a href="/AbbeyTheatre/">Abbey Theatre</a> stage designers and, later in life, moved to🌻#BedfordPk
Science News (@sciencenews) 's Twitter Profile Photo

However remarkable you thought Katherine Johnson was after watching “Hidden Figures,” you don’t know the half of it. #BlackHistoryMonth sciencenews.org/article/kather…

The New Yorker (@newyorker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.Elizabeth Kolbert details how phosphorus, a vital nutrient that revolutionized the world’s agriculture, helped save our way of life—and now threatens to end it. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Barbara Kiser (@barbkiser) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm among the many affected by Evri's failings - the company managed to lose a delivery and was unable to explain why. Evri came in last in this ranking - at number 17. moneysavingexpert.com/news/2023/janu…

Wildlife and Countryside Link (@wcl_news) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our research with The Rivers Trust reveals a forever chemical toxic timebomb. Sites inc the Mersey Thames & Avon contain 10x proposed EU safe levels. We must: 🚫#BanPFAS in all but vital uses 🧪Control similar chemicals as a group 👩‍🔬Strictly monitor thetimes.co.uk/article/toxic-…

Pippa Crerar (@pippacrerar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rishi Sunak tells #PMConnect that NI is “world’s most exciting economic zone" b/c of access to both GB and EU markets. Earlier he said this "very special position" makes it "incredibly attractive" place to invest. This is, of course, the status *whole* UK had before Brexit 🤔

Fintan O'Toole (@fotoole) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This deal could have been struck in 2021 – but the last thing Brexiters wanted was to get Brexit done | Fintan O'Toole theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Barbara Kiser (@barbkiser) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Why does belatedly righting Johnson's grotesque error - which he supported - burnish his reputation? It's not a moment for triumphalism.

Barbara Kiser (@barbkiser) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"After seven years of needless political, economic and logistical chaos – directly caused by Brexit – we are now being asked to praise the Prime Minister for clearing up a small part of the mess that he himself has created." Context is all, and this is spot-on.

Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Court of Appeal has ruled. I've won on 2 of 3 important grounds of principle. Most importantly, the landmark public interest ruling is intact. The judge's findings of fact are intact. The original judgment holds. The court found in favour of Banks on a single point 1/

Feargal Sharkey (@feargal_sharkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On Monday "I'm heartbroken". On Tuesday "Thames Water fined £2m for “foreseeable and avoidable” pollution." Clearly not heartbroken enough then. I think that's something like the 82nd environment permit breach Thames Water 💧 has been found guilty of. gov.uk/government/new…

dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@mrdavemacleod) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Stephen Flynn asking Rishi Sunak at #PMQs the question everyone wants an answer to: "if EU single market access is special, exciting and attractive... why is he denying it for the rest of us?" 🔥

Friends of the River Wye (@friendsupperwye) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We’ve officially reported this to the Welsh environmental regulator Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales - will they act to remove this pile of manure polluting the river and take action against the polluter? Watch this space. 👀

Feargal Sharkey (@feargal_sharkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Destroyer of environments Southern Water, over abstractor of chalk streams to the tune of 131 million litres of water per day, dumper of sewage 358,197 hours in the last 2 years alone, is now trying to brainwash our kids and using primary schools teachers to do it. Shame on you