The future’s in safe hands
the quest we all seek to clean up our environment succeeds it will be down not to a bunch of showbiz peacocks, but the likes of Lucy Hughes, right. She’s the whip-smart graduate who the Daily Express reported last week has created a new material called MarinaTex, made of organic fish waste and which biodegrades in a month, as an alternative to plastic packaging.
Lucy’s invention won her this year’s UK national James Dyson Award, and means she will receive funds to help her further develop the idea.
We need a lot more people like Lucy Hughes, and the best way to ensure that is through capitalism, and the power that the market unleashes to support her potential and that of similarly brilliant minds. Not the sort of year zero back-to-the-wilderness espoused by the mung bean mafia who run Extinction Rebellion.
first thought after reading Lewis Hamilton witter about how he felt like “giving up on everything” because “the world is such a mess and people don’t seem to care” was trying – and failing – to imagine previous motor racing greats like James Hunt or Niki Lauda similarly veering into the
fast lane of emotional incontinence. My second was to check the five-time Formula 1 champion’s age.
easy to trap him in time as the teenage prodigy he was once. In fact, he’s now 34. In other words, more than old enough to start acting his age – not his number of world titles. A RARE shining light amid the sea of mediocrity in the House of Commons during Saturday’s Brexit debate was provided by the Labour MP for south Yorkshire’s Don Valley, Caroline Flint. In the 2016 referendum she voted Remain. But unlike so many of those in both main parties she has consistently held to the manifesto pledge they each made to honour the democratic outcome of the referendum result (backed incidentally by more than 68 per cent of her constituency).
In the debate Flint courageously exposed her party’s duplicity on the issue, accusing colleagues of doing “everything they can to undermine that historic decision”. Should Labour ever seriously contemplate rediscovering its roots, it needs to clear its front bench of posturing no-marks like Corbyn, Starmer and Thornberry, and find space there for Caroline Flint and others of her calibre.