Able to cope with disease and climate change. might old varieties be a good place to start? our science editor rebecca morelle explains archive: wheat. in britain, the most momentous harvest of all time. it s a crop we ve long relied on. wheat being harvested in 19116. their enemies are wind and rain. it was the start of a farming revolution, growing only a few varieties chosen to produce as much grain as possible. every ear counts. it s led to a lack of diversity. and today s wheat is coming under intense pressure from climate change and disease. but these old files at the natural history museum could contain a solution. there are 12,000 specimens of wheat and its relatives stored here, and they date back to the 1700s and come from every continent apart from antarctica.
You were wondering, was his way of paying the bill. danny savage has the story. in a traditional english bar in the hills of county durham is a unique work of art. a mural of dickensian frivolity, created by an artist who liked a drink. why did he do it? legend has it that he d run up a bar bill, basically for the gin that he d drunk while he was here. and he can t even remember painting the spider that s on the wall. the man with the brushes back in 19116 wasjohn gilroy, famed for turning toucans into the instantly recognisable brand of guinness. the animals are not caricature to much, but they were, i thought, always happy. there s nothing. they were very british. he even caricatured himself as the zoo keeper. to think this is his first
Century and now this work has been restored by specialists. and the mural, in case you were wondering, was his way of paying the bill. danny savage has the story. in a traditional english bar in the hills of county durham is a unique work of art. a mural of dickensian frivolity, created by an artist who liked a drink. why did he do it? legend has it that he d run up a bar bill, basically for the gin that he d drunk while he was here. and he can t even remember painting the spider that s on the wall. the man with the brushes back in 19116 wasjohn gilroy, famed for turning toucans into the instantly recognisable brand of guinness. the animals are not caricature too much, but they were, i thought, always happy. there s nothing. they were very british. he even caricatured himself as the zoo keeper. to think this is his first
Stops free speech, arrests people and always has looming over them the prospect of them being incarcerated. now, in everything you have written about your time in hong kong and the handover, and in these diaries, you suggest that the british government and british business were too subservient to china. you suggested that that was counterproductive. i mean, presumably, given what we are hearing from nato now they ve just released a statement saying china s stated ambitions and coercive policies challenge our interests, securities and values. are you pleased to hear that kind of much more punchy statement coming from them? yeah. look, look, i have never believed in containing china, but i do believe that we should constrain china and point up its bad behaviour when it happens. and there was a. there s a great and famous. long telegram, it s called, by george kennan about the soviet union in 19116,
By george kennan about the soviet union in 19116, in which he said that we should recognise that their view, ie the russian, their view of reality and ours are incompatible, and it s true with china. trade in body parts, forced abortions. look at what s happening in xinjiang, look at what s happening in hong kong, look at what s happening in tibet. the last imperial power in the world is china in xinjiang and tibet and hong kong. ok, so where does this lead? because at the same time as we re hearing this statement from nato, we have the likes of the us treasurer, former us treasury secretary janet yellen talking about friend shoring , advising companies to ensure that their supply chains are in friendly countries so that they are more resilient. that idea of.what is a retreat of globalisation. well, it s certainly a retreat of globalisation if the price for globalisation is having to kowtow to china. take one example.