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Calling for a new tax isn’t going to make me terribly popular, but when it comes to disposable coffee cups, we need one. A study by Cardiff University, on behalf of coffee roaster Bewley’s, suggests it might just work. Britons get through a mountain of disposable cups every day. As many as 2.5bn of them end up in landfill every year. The problem is created by the plastic lining that keeps the cups waterproof. It makes them hard to recycle. Coffee chains say they’re making efforts to improve “sustainability”, hard work they are fond of highlighting on their websites. The...

The cast of Game of Thrones have light-heartedly mocked the coffee cup blunder which occurred during the final series of the show. On Saturday 20 July, the stars of the hit HBO fantasy drama took part in a panel event at San Diego Comic-Con. As the actors made their way to the table in Hall H, they discovered that takeaway coffee cups had been left by their name cards. During the fourth episode of the eighth season of Game of Thrones, eagle-eyed viewers spotted a takeaway coffee cup which had been accidentally left in shot on a table in front of Daenerys Targaryen, played by Emilia Clarke. Numerous fans took...