Research from the Center for Countering Digital Hate has found that a third of UK teenagers believe climate change is ‘exaggerated’, the report found, that many YouTube videos promoting a new kind of climate denial aimed at young people proliferate on the platform. First many believed that climate change was not happening, or that humans were not exacerbating the decline. Now the research indicated the idea that the effects of global heating are beneficial or harmless.
Well, first these youngsters should look at my garden being slowly transformed into a bog, we have had rain almost every day in London. Secondly, my daughter has just returned from a skiing holiday in Aviemore in the Cairngorms National Park, except there was no snow and the only light covering was being used as nursery slopes, with novices being charged hundreds to ski.
On 10 March 1886 the First Great Terrier Show precursor to Cruft’s was organised in London by Spratt’s dog biscuit salesman Charles Cruft
Temple Bar on Fleet Street displayed decapitated traitors heads on spikes after being boiled in brine and cumin seeds to deter pecking birds
On Knight’s Road Docklands the world’s largest tin of syrup is affixed to Tate & Lyle’s factory producing the world’s oldest branded product
In his will Dickens stipulated that no monuments be erected to his memory, that’s why London has no statues of one of its greatest writers
On 10 March 1914 suffragette Mary Richardson attacked Velazquez’s painting the Rokeby Venus, hanging in the National Gallery, with an axe
Now charmingly inaccurate, the life-sized models of dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park, constructed in the 1850s were the first in the world
The basement at 27 Endell Street was once the animal depot for West End theatres once two bulls escaped liberating a menagerie on Soho streets
A white strip near BBC White City marks the finish of the world’s first modern marathon in 1908 originally 25 miles extended to 26m 385yards
Early rear view mirrors in taxis couldn’t be adjusted allegedly to prevent drivers from ogling the legs of their lady passengers
South Bank’s Anchor Brewery, once the largest brewery in the world, all that remains is the old brewery tap the Anchor Tavern on Park Street
Burrell & Co on Blasker Walk Docklands once manufactured dyes, red smoke from the chimneys would tint the local pigeons rose-pink
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