The BBC was kind enough to link to one of my posts this weekend – cue big bump in traffic. Unsurprisingly, it was not some worthy discussion of adaptive management, or research for impact, but a funny: A handy guide for our fellow Europeans, and others trying to fathom weaselly Brit-speak, first published in 2011.
Seems particularly relevant to the nightmare negotiations in the months to come, and I assume a lot of you weren’t reading this blog in 2011, so there seems no harm in a bit of recycling.
Nicholas Pialek (now at WaterAid) first sent it to me, but it was one of those internet memes, and we could not identify its origins – if anyone can say who first wrote it, I would be more than happy to credit them.
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