Gavin Haines

London

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

Journalist, travel writer and sometime columnist. Associate editor @PositiveNewsUK. Writes for @Telegraph @BBC @NatGeo @theipaper. Home is #Nunhead.

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What went right this week: the good news that matters

1 week ago | positive.news | Gavin Haines

Scotland moved to make ecocide illegal, violent crime fell rapidly in the US, and lowland gorillas got a boost, plus more good news Conservation Culture Energy Society World Scotland moved to make ecocide illegal, violent crime fell rapidly in the US, and lowland gorillas got a boost, plus more good news Scotland proposes ecocide bill Scotland is poised to become the first UK nation to criminalise ecocide – severe and reckless harm to nature – under a new bill published in the Scottish...
What went right this week: the good news that matters

2 weeks ago | positive.news | Gavin Haines

Wild campers scored a major victory in England The UK’s supreme court has upheld the legal right to wild camp at a treasured English beauty spot – a judgement that was about much more than simply pitching a tent. Wednesday’s ruling followed attempts by landowner Alexander Darwall to end the right to wild camp on Dartmoor – the last place in England where it was permitted. The estate owner had argued that camping damaged the countryside.
What went right this week: the good news that matters

3 weeks ago | positive.news | Gavin Haines

China’s emissions tipped into reverse, scientists had a breast cancer breakthrough, and Europe’s best cycling city was revealed, plus more good news Environment Health Society UK World China’s emissions tipped into reverse, scientists had a breast cancer breakthrough, and Europe’s best cycling city was revealed, plus more good news China’s emissions tipped into reverse China’s embrace of renewables has tipped its emissions into reverse, with some experts predicting the country’s CO2 output...
I took the new eco-friendly Dover-Boulogne ferry - it has its own passport control

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Gavin Haines

Two hours ago, I stood atop the white cliffs of Dover under a clear blue sky, gazing across the glistening English Channel. The Strait of Dover looked still and inviting, a picture of calm. It was an illusion, I realise now, as our catamaran barrels over eight-foot waves and skipper Andrew Simons fetches the sick bucket. “Look at the horizon,” says the Yorkshireman, calmly.
Academics want to ‘decolonise’ Stratford-upon-Avon, but the town remains gloriously unchanged

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Gavin Haines

My hands are sticky with strawberry ice cream, so I wipe them on my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-shirt while someone blathers on about a bloke called William Shakespeare. I’m in a strange town with marauding swans, a lazy river, and a stone bridge that glows in the decadence of mid-summer. Colourful narrowboats float on a listless canal while cars trundle up streets lined with crooked Tudor buildings. You can’t move for badly dressed Yanks clutching camcorders.
Academics want to 'decolonise' Stratford-upon-Avon, but the town remains gloriously unchanged

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Gavin Haines

The Bard's birthplace has found itself at the centre of a woke row, but tourists continue to visitMy hands are sticky with strawberry ice cream, so I wipe them on my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-shirt while someone blathers on about a bloke called William Shakespeare. I'm in a strange town with marauding swans, a lazy river, and a stone bridge that glows in the decadence of mid-summer.
What went right this week: the good news that matters

1 month ago | positive.news | Gavin Haines

The popemobile was bequeathed to Gaza, Uganda’s Ebola outbreak ended, and elk looked set to return to Britain, plus more good news Conservation Energy Health Society UK World The popemobile was bequeathed to Gaza, Uganda’s Ebola outbreak ended, and elk looked set to return to Britain, plus more good news Popemobile to become a health clinic for children in Gaza One of Pope Francis’s popemobiles is to be converted into a mobile clinic to deliver frontline care to children in Gaza – but not...
What went right this week: the good news that matters

1 month ago | positive.news | Gavin Haines

Indonesia topped a new wellbeing index, the hunt for an Alzheimer's cure stepped up, and an ‘extinct’ bird came back from the abyss, plus more good news Indonesia topped the inaugural Global Flourishing Study Various indexes try to gauge how humanity is faring mentally, measuring everything from happiness and wellbeing to life satisfaction. Now there’s a new yardstick in the mix.
What went right this week: the good news that matters

1 month ago | positive.news | Gavin Haines

The ‘Green Nobel prize’ revealed its winners, data caught up with climate wreckers, and scientists developed a superbug-busting paint, plus more good news Environment Health Society UK World The ‘Green Nobel prize’ revealed its winners, data caught up with climate wreckers, and scientists developed a superbug-busting paint, plus more good news The Goldman prize revealed its winners Activists who protected the planet from mining giants, plastic companies and energy firms are among the winners...
I visited every country on earth but meeting suicide bombers at a wedding shocked me

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Gavin Haines

Bazooka-wielding militias, psychedelic tribes and cockroach-infested jails are par for the course for the growing 'go everywhere' community"I was kidnapped by terrorists in Mauritania. They kept us in a tent for three days in the desert. When they realised that we were nobodies they let us go. I still ask myself: 'why?'"Nicolas Pasquali is reflecting on the inevitable perils that come with joining the '193 club', an exclusive coterie of people who have travelled to every UN-recognised country.