BBC's "Farming Today" defends tax-funded EU farm subsidies & higher food prices
Radio 4’s “Farming Today” and its defence of European Union farm subsidies (broadcast 6.30am, 20th August 2011) was surprising only in how one-sided was the presentation of the debate. Rather than the balanced, dispassionate presentation of the case for and against government subsidies to farmers – something that one might have expected from...
The Judgement of Paris @ 35 years – how competition is improving wine
For wine drinkers, The Judgement of Paris – the blind taste-testing that took place 35 years ago today, 24th May 1976 – was a major turning-point in the development of new and better wines the world over. Organised by a British wine seller and expert, Steven Spurrier, The Judgement of Paris...