David Stanway
@DavidStanway
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Environment correspondent with Reuters. Ex-China. Proud northern English hill dweller. Up the Clarets.
Singapore
Joined August 2011
RT @Culture_Crit: This 500-year-old portrait may seem ordinary, but it's one of the most mysterious in history. There's so much detail tha….
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RT @dorfman_p: Scientists at Oxford University have created a new ultra-thin, flexible new solar cell which could be installed on cars, bui….
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Scientists at Oxford University have created a new ultra-thin, flexible new solar cell which could be installed on cars, buildings, and even backpacks or mobiles
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RT @ChristopherJM: Evan is free and heading home. Great news today. Russia, the US and other countries exchanged 26 prisoners including t….
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Russia, US and other countries exchange 26 prisoners in largest transfer since the cold war
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RT @Martina: Deplorable. This will not end well for the people in power who allowed this to happen.
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RT @DreyfusJames: What I saw. A woman getting hit SO hard, in the head, by a man, that she wisely chose to stop it, because she KNEW if sh….
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RT @Glinner: Can we get #ResignMarkAdams trending? He shouldn't last the day for what he put that woman through.
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RT @IanRidley1: I covered #England under 10 managers, including some caretakers, very august names and figures among them. Not one of them….
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RT @katydaigle: China has announced plans to better measure the carbon content of its products - a key step in reaching its own climate goa….
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China announced plans on Wednesday to better measure the carbon content of its products - a key step in reaching its own climate goals and meeting tougher carbon standards overseas.
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RT @martinpollard21: China avoids climate change discussion despite extreme weather w/@DavidStanway @Reuters @reute….
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Record heat and historic floods in China this summer have failed to ignite domestic public debate about how the world's top carbon polluter can mitigate climate change, leaving campaigners frustrated...
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Wonderful review by @jameslasdun. When troubled people search for salvation, disaster invariably ensues. And when an even more troubled man sets himself up as their saviour, he almost inevitably succumbs to his own totalitarian urges.
‘The therapists had persuaded several hundred well educated “patients” to give them almost total control over their lives: most sensationally their sex lives, but also their work, finances, friendships and children.’. @jameslasdun on the Sullivanians:.
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Neutral though I am supposed to be, I hate the heat.
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Countries across Asia have been hit by another round of extreme heat that has toppled seasonal temperature records throughout the region, raising concerns about their ability to adapt to a rapidly...
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Wonderful tribute here. ‘Damn, that fool can write’: how Martin Amis made everyone up their game
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He exploded into the tweedy world of literature, a young, pouting and outrageously brash crusader for prose. Our writer remembers her encounters with the novelist, whose smarts and chutzpah confoun...
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RT @john_self: “OY!! THAT went a BIT FUCKING QUICK!!!”. I wrote this appreciation for the works of the late Martin Amis (just typing that p….
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Starting with 1984’s Money, the novelist’s run of exceptional 80s and 90s novels had an unforgettable swagger and clout
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RT @suzanne_moore: Everyone wanted to write a sentence like Martin Amis. Only he could. Only he did. Kinder than most people ever realised….
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RT @juderogers: I interviewed Martin Amis for the last edition of Word magazine in 2012. My job was to get him to divulge lessons he’d lear….
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RT @katydaigle: Last month's brutal heatwaves across parts of South and Southeast Asia were 30x more likely to occur thanks to climate chan….
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Record-breaking heatwaves that hit large parts of South and Southeast Asia in April were made "30 times more likely" as a result of human-induced climate change, an international team of scientists...
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