By Catherine McBride – 7 minute read THE MEDIA has moved on from the Conservative leadership election and Royal funeral and has now started to worry about the falling pound – but should we? The Pound is low relative to the US dollar, but so are most currencies at the moment, except interestingly for the [...]
By Catherine McBride – 5 minute read WHILE MOST PEOPLE are worried about coming shortages: fuel, food and even water, there are still some members of the Twitter fraternity worried about surpluses. Specifically gluts of agricultural products – or what most of us would call ‘food’ – being imported into the UK from Australia and [...]
By Brian Monteith – 4 minute read UNTIL our government changes its mindset to do things differently from the EU we shall continue lazily to adopt its norms irrespective of whether or not they are appropriate to us. You probably did not know that last year the European Commission proposed a new law to halt [...]
By Brian Monteith – 6 minute read HERE WE GO AGAIN! Another attempt to demonise Palm oil and save the world. This time it’s a rather unsubtle and loose article in The Mirror suggesting Palm oil causes cancer. It’s nonsense, of course, but a lack of credible evidence never stopped lobbyists and activists from creating [...]
By Brian Monteith – 6 minute read AS THE Governor of the Bank of England has pointed out, food prices are rising dramatically in some particular markets and this is a global phenomenon. As prices rise to record levels some governments have chosen to clamp down on the export of grains, cooking oils, etc. from [...]
