
EU commission anti-deforestation law is just another cover for protectionism
EARLIER THIS YEAR the European Commission proposed a new law to halt deforestation and minimise the EU’s impact on forests worldwide. Its aim was to

EARLIER THIS YEAR the European Commission proposed a new law to halt deforestation and minimise the EU’s impact on forests worldwide. Its aim was to

WE REALLY DO live in a world that has turned logic upside down and are living through the other side of the looking glass (the

AS IS USUAL with such matters you probably did not know that last year the European Commission proposed a new law to halt deforestation and

HERE WE GO AGAIN! Another attempt to demonise Palm oil and save the world. This time it’s a rather unsubtle and loose article in The

The immediate inclination of politicians and technocrats when something goes wrong is to reach for the controls to try and exert more power over events.

MALAYSIA, the second biggest producer of palm oil, maintains it has enough palm oil to meet global demand and keep supply chains moving. Yet despite

IMAGINE you run a well-known supermarket chain and therefore attract a great deal of lobbying from environmental activists wanting to change the ways you do

AS WITH ANY political campaigning when it comes to saving the planet it is often difficult for the public to see the wood because of

A CONSTANT REFRAIN in the EU referendum was how important it was for our farmers to be in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and the

THE PRE-BUDGET leaks are coming fast and furious from the Chancellor’s team in an attempt to set the agenda and manage expectations of what Rishi

VIVIAN LINACRE who has died aged 93 was an optimist’s optimist, an enthusiast’s enthusiast whose glass was always half-full-to-brimming-over with cheerfulness and passion for a

THE WEST’S abrupt and calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan is, for British consumption at least, being compared to the rude awakening to its impotence without US