George Osborne's surprise new sugar tax has been greeted with the predictable chorus of glad cries from health campaigners, howls of derision from industry and healthy scepticism from commentators. But whatever the chancellor's motives (and such is the repute in which he is held …
The Independent
Charlie Hebdo – by Dave Brown
Anyone who did not see the Independent's wonderful front page this morning (entirely taken over by Dave Brown's cartoon below) should definitely check in to his blog post today. As he says, 'we are privileged to live in a country where cartoonists don't get locked up, or …
Allotments
Good news to report, when I managed to catch up with the Sunday papers this morning.... The Independent on Sunday which raised the alarm over allotments last Sunday (see The end of the good life) now reckons that, thanks to its threat to start a 'save our forests' type campaign, …