The sub-optimal education that I referred to at the end of the previous piece seems to include the former Brexit MEP Annunziata Rees-Mogg, sister of the Leader of the House and equally self-entitled, who has been opining on the price of potatoes and the poor. She has received a powerful reply from none other than… Read more
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Food
Sub-optimal nourishment shows
For once I have to stray from my usual criticism! Henry Dimbleby’s Part One of National Food Strategy, commissioned by Michael Gove when in charge of Agriculture, is good and very encouraging – let us hope that this government (which is in large part devoid of original ideas) takes them up! I think it is… Read more
Johnson’s new dietary advice
Might include this soup produced in honour of his recent visit to Baxter’s Scottish factory: The rest of the ‘Conservative’ range is, it is said, suitably rich, thick and tasteless… On a more serious note the details of the Johnson diet that have been trailed so far seem to revolve around bicycling on the NHS,… Read more
Tesco chief thinks markets don’t work
Dave Lewis, still boss of Tesco until October, has had interesting things to say on the food market. So interesting, in fact, that I feel compelled to quote verbatim from the European Supermarket Magazine article. “We face the worst public health crisis in generations. Economic contraction threatens the livelihoods of millions. And the point of… Read more
What have we done to our future?
The consequences of Brexit look at least as disastrous as Project Fear. I suggest that that has indeed actually turned out to be Project Reality. Not that that makes its imminence any easier to stomach. Ian Dunt of Politics Home is of a similar opinion- he suggests that, What was treasonable metropolitan hogwash is now… Read more
Government’s purpose: justice and money
This ‘Harpers’ article demonstrates why progressing out of lockdowm will be so difficult – and the rent overhang demonstrates how recovery is unlikely to be speedy. All this could change instantly if government understood or even suggested that money is state created and not created by the private sector … The article says: The quarterly… Read more
Will Dim and Dom manage to pull it off?
There is a worrying piece in this week’s ‘Grocer’ confirming what many suspected – that Brexit was never ‘oven-ready’ and least of all for food: Failure to reach a Brexit deal with Europe will lead to much worse food shortages than the coronavirus panic buying crisis: this was the stark warning made to MPs today… Read more
Brexit disaster looms…
There is worrying news from the WTO, which seems to be little noticed. The only record I can find is here, and which ‘Yorkshire Bylines’ are, I suggest, well worth following. The USA has long refused to approve more WTO ajudicators (arbitrators for disputes) so these judges are now inquorate. Trump has only accentuated the… Read more
Automatic ‘cheers’…
A little light relief showing, perhaps, human inventiveness… Or, maybe it’s desperation…. It certainly made me smile…. Read more
Fatstock for slaughter
I have already drawn attention to the diabetes and metabolism problems that appear to leave some people more than usually susceptible to COVID-19. Even more persuasive evidence has arrived in the ‘European Scientist’: Public Health England have said now is the best time to quit smoking, citing research from China concluding that smokers were 14… Read more