At the General Election, Oxford West and Abingdon’s MP of 13 years, Dr Evan Harris, lost by 176 votes. I hasten to emphasise that this is not a political blog – I am an independent without a vote! But his narrow loss set me thinking about the place of expertise in Parliament. Evan Harris was…
There is an interesting discussion growing around the contribution of meat production in relation to climate change. It is not just about methane gas from animals (including us!) but particularly about the destruction of forests to create grazing for cattle. The British have to watch what we say about this having cut down most of…
