The Appeasers: David Attenborough and the BBC
I don’t watch nature and wildlife programmes. I must be one of the few people in the country who didn’t watch a single episode of the Blue Planet series and I didn’t regret it for…
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Have your say on how to reform food and farming after Brexit
Do you want farming and food in the UK to be beyond GM, beyond pesticides, beyond the intensive and the industrial? Would you like it to be healthy, fair, ecological and truly sustainable (in the…
BORN IN THE FIFTIES, GREW UP IN THE SIXTIES, DESPERATE TO GET THINGS RIGHT
As I’m now seriously old – about as old as some of my friends from school – I have just been reflecting on things from the 60s and 70s – that is 1960s and 1970s…
UK farming’s cost to society
According to the Sunday Times a Treasury committee has found that farming is responsible for £700 million per year of net external costs to society and taxpayers. The Natural Capital Committee (NCC) – made up…