Blood Swept Lands and a Sea of Red – the truly amazing installation at the Tower of London created by the ceramic artist Paul Cummins and hundreds and thousands of volunteers – is still creeping its way round the wide grass moat that surrounds the old grey walls of the Tower. …
Politics
Roundup and autism – is there a link?
Simple explanations for complex problems are always very tempting but they rarely prove to be the answer. This is especially true in our modern medical world where diverse, debilitating and ever more common conditions such as allergy, coeliac disease, Parkinsons, MS, ME and …
‘World Bank accused of destroying traditional farming to support corporate land grabs’
Received this morning: Today, the Oakland Institute and /The Rules, along with other NGOs, farmer and consumer organizations from around the world launch a campaign, Our Land Our Business, to hold the World Bank accountable for its role in the rampant theft of land and …
Update on organic versus GM
As I have started to emerge from the awards frenzy of the last few months I have been catching up what has been happening in the rest of the world... And I thought that these three bits of news deserved a wider airing. Russia not interested in genetically modified …
47% of MEPS suffer from allergies!
Not only were the members if the European Parliament staggered to find how many of them suffered from allergies, but so were the team from the EAACI (European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology) who organised the tests! 'We knew that allergies are a major health issue …