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Vote for clean rivers!
Perspective Media
June 30, 2024
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This week, Peter Phelps gets behind the campaign for clean water, Michael Janofsky despairs at the choice in the US election, and Rowan Pelling calls for a change of guard in the UK + Book of the week and our pick of website must-reads.
Vote for clean rivers!
BY PETER PHELPS, PUBLISHER
The novelist and Perspective contributor, Sarah Hall
On the banks of the River Thames, where King John once signed the Magna Carta, the campaign group River Action are taking a stand against the critically endangered state of our waterways. As we head into this week’s general election, Perspective asks CEO James Wallace about its #votecleanrivers crusade to get voters backing politicians who pledge action.
It was shocking to hear that most of our rivers are sicker than they look
Pants on fire
BY MICHAEL JANOFSKY, US CORRESPONDENT
Unless Biden stands down, US voters have to choose between a Republican liar and a Democrat who's reached the end of his working life
Electile dysfunction
BY ROWAN PELLING, EDITOR
Dirty talk about tax cuts or wealth creation is failing to arouse: these subjects aren't a turn-on
What’s sexy to me is a government that does immediate, emergency triage on the NHS
Killer drones
BY ROWAN PELLING, EDITOR
A lone operator in Kyiv has been hailed for programming AI-operated drones as "killing machines" in Russia, but this harbinger of future destruction is not a laudable initiative
The drones are capable of cooperating with each other in a “swarm” of up to seven killer machines
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Book of the week
REVIEWED BY BELINDA BAMBER
Mary Horlock’s historical mystery blends folklore, hauntings, romance and the impact of war on women, narrated by an engaging eccentric
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