Spare a thought for our hard-pressed independent retailers this Christmas, for they are beleaguered. In an economic climate of tightened purse strings and mothballed credit cards, some of them will be closing their doors for the last time in 2012. But don’t worry – your supermarkets and other retail clonestores will still be there, hoovering [...]
Continue reading about Haunting the High Street – The Ghost of Christmas Past
Oh dear, it started off so well. Sitting attentively through the first two episodes of Channel 4’s The Food Hospital, Rob and I couldn’t believe that at last there seemed to be recognition by the medical profession, albeit a small team of four, that a lot of common health problems can be cured or alleviated [...]
Food is a central preoccupation of all living things, and we humans are no different. Without sufficient food, we die. This is quite apparent in many places in the world, and the media regularly obsess about feeding the world. In an overfed Western world, it is quite right that we should feel some pang of [...]
Continue reading about Feeding the World, Take 2: the population myth
How far do we have to be pushed before we reach an emotional tipping point, beyond which we descend into a reliance on primitive instincts? What would cause that to happen in our modern society? Our history is full of examples of times when ordinary people have reached the point of no return and in [...]