Nearly two months ago the Guild of Health Writers held a fascinating workshop run by the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College in London. I apologise for the delay in reporting on it but I have only just discovered that I had not, as I had feared, recycled my …
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Food Ethics Council looks to the future
The Food Ethics Council is 20 years old this year. And to celebrate the fact it held an interesting afternoon's workshop last week with, as its key speaker, the Professor of International Human Rights, Olivier de Schutter, who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on …
Daily Mail warns of the dangers of wifi…
OK - so you are all used to me wittering on about the dangers of electromagnetic radiation, wifi, smart meters, mobile phones and baby alarms. But now the Daily Mail has weighed in with a long article by Geoffrey Lean quoting Professor Anthony Miller of Toronto University. The …
Fancy some figures?….
Pretty amazing view, eh? Tower of London in the foreground, Tower Bridge, the Lord Mayor's Chelsea Bun... And all from the top of the Gherkin where I found myself last Friday as part of House Creative's Key Steps to FreeFrom Success. And a very enjoyable morning it proved to …
Bootleg liquor accounts for nearly quarter of all alcohol consumed globally….
And by bootleg, I mean alcohol which is made from, or at least contains, mosquito repellent, cough medicine, battery acid, mortuary formaldehyde and methanol among many other dubious, toxic and often lethal substances. How did I know about it? Well, I could just have found out by …