An excellent article by food journalist, Joanna Blythman in the (Glasgow) Herald, whose thoughts reflect my own: Johnson clearly hasn’t been in control of his weight for years. It took coronavirus to make him realise that those extra stones he’s been carrying are a marker for poor metabolic health, which predisposes you to all sorts… Read more
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Global Britain? Make mine a pint – of Champagne
Brexit has thrown up all sorts of peculiar and individual desires, yet none of them seem to be of any consequence. As Der Spiegel reports, this is one of them! That is using the opportunity of Brexit to sell wine in 0.568 Litre (the equivalent of a pint) bottles, which was a recent Daily Telegraph… Read more
Ultra Processed Food and Health
Although it is rather removed from current Christmas Party preoccupations, I thought this article in the latest edition of the American magazine, Newsweek was impressive. It explains in devastating detail how America’s own food businesses are poisoning their own population. The article is actually very instructive and well worth reading in full. Probably the most… Read more
Civilisation means reinvesting our surplus – in us all
I thought this article was excellent stuff. The author suggests that humans, having finished a nomadic hunter- gatherer existence such that when we stayed put and had a food surplus, which could be stored as insurance against a famine, we arrived at what could be termed civilisation. Of course this is a summary of civilisation… Read more
For you to be happy, you need to be kind..
I’m rather wary of highlighting advertisements as they are generally so destructive of society by trying to worry us into more consuming. I think an exception can be made for this rather odd one minute and twenty seconds from Aldi – really because it doesn’t worry me – at least – and the conclusion is… Read more
Is a balance of payments deficit by definition a desire of supplying countries to invest?
This, to me is a very difficult question but in a recent seminar from the UK in a Changing Europe it was suggested by Meredith Crowley. She thought that a deficit was an indication of a desire to invest. I’m rather conflicted… For what always worries me is our food deficit. Maybe other countries do… Read more
Sunak lying again about Brexit ‘advantages’
Yet another example of this politician’s problem is this indication of wine duties in the EU and the UK: I am amazed that Sunak could suggest that his alcohol duty alterations are a result of the ‘freedom’ of Brexit. Rather like Freeports, they are categorically not. It is a complete ‘terminological inexactitude’ – as Churchill… Read more
Water beyond satire
I wonder if they have they appointed a Minister for water-borne diseases yet? Not only does Parliament seem, on the second reading at least to have purposely avoided requiring water companies to better control their sewage outflows into the sea and rivers, Brexit itself means that the imported chemicals designed to reduce toxicity are in… Read more
Epitome of Climate Change
I was intrigued by this commentary – which relates not to the normal preoccupations of Progressive Pulse but to what used to be my own preoccupations. Global warming is having a considerable impact on vine growing. Yes, Britain is benefitting to some extent from global climate warming so Pinot Noir, the difficult and sole grape… Read more
‘Cash generative’ Morrisons…
I heard on Radio 4 this morning that like any supermarket, Morrisons was ‘cash generative’. I’m sure it is. That is allegedly the simple appeal for the New York private equity bid – and allegedly, too they have ‘assured’ that they will not engage in property sale and leaseback or any similar sell-off. As Morrisons… Read more