we recycle as much of our stage set material, costumes, props. we have about 32 electric vehicle charging points, which are all charged from the wind turbine. just down this little route here, which is rather spectacular, we have put in a wild beehive. glyndebourne is also making costumes in a more environmentally friendly way by using dye from plants grown in their gardens. we have leaves, we have roots, we have flowers, we ve got pine bark here. we soak them, we boil them, and we use a mordant to fix it into the fabric. and then you get this selection of colours. yeah, we ve got a lovely selection and we can use them quite often in choruses in opera. we re trying this season especially to really bring it into every production.
often in choruses. often in choruses in opera. we re trying this season especially to really bring it into every production. i d like to reach for these before i reach for a chemical product. it sjust better for the environment. the rivers around the world are polluted by dyes a lot. this way everything goes back into the ground. our carbon footprint is much smaller because people are bringing it straight from the gardens to us here. i think it s very important that that we have this sustainability drive for the next generation of opera goers. opera is a 400 year old art form, and we can t sit on our laurels and hope that people will come. so how does glyndebourne s environmental record measure up in the performing arts?
think? look, i agree that it was the right thing to do to take down this chinese spy drone. but it was too little, too late. and we re seeing choruses of republicans and people across this country saying that it should not have gotten to this point. and as our colleague, david urban, said this morning, what we saw was, in essence, china giving the middle finger the size of three school buses to america all the way across the country. and, look, the biden administration knew about this long ago and failed to acknowledge this and let people know until this was reported by the media. and what this basically did, it allowed china to gather intelligence and gather information all across the country. and that should not have happened. and i m hearing from republican and democrat members of congress, who say their phones are being blown up by constituents, republicans and democrats, who are frustrated with this slow response by this
as the payroll vote, like ministers opposed him. 0n the most important question of the day, and on hisjudgement of how to keep the public safe, it appears they do not trust him. nor, if the result announced in the early hours of friday morning in a parliamentary by election, do some voters. polly toynbee, i can imagine the singing choruses, that was the week that was. it s over, let it go, in downing street and in boris johnson s flat. it rather sounded as if that was the prime minister s position. because he sort of said, well, look, there was a lot of stuff in the headlines, and that got in the way doing for them in doing things that will improve their lives. were the voters blinded by the stuff people like you and otherjournalists have been putting in front of them? well, i think its traditional that politicians blame the media for bad stories they ve created themselves. he s had one worst week after another for about the last six weeks, culminating in a catastrophic by electi