Approved Document B
On January 3, 2018, I wrote to my MP as follows: We’re now approaching the fifth anniversary of the Lakanal House inquest and the rule 43 letter sent by the Assistant Deputy Coroner, Frances...
Category: Musings
The Gove of Christmas Future
Disclaimer: The below is a fantasy based on flimsily-constructed caricatures that may share the names of real people but, in a very real sense, bear no discernible relation to real people at all. “Toss...
The Price of Honey
At this time of year, on the darkening cusp of autumn, beekeepers tend to ponder what they have achieved during the year, totting up the benefits that nature has so generously provided and wondering...
Standards and Definitions – Part II
Within the European Economic Community, the predecessor of today’s EU, the question of what honey was settled in 1974, when the various definitions (or lack of them) that existed in the nine member nations...
Standards and Definitions – Part I
You may never have heard of Bertha Cardona who, in January 2011 bought a jar of HoneyTree’s Market Pantry Honey, for around $3, from a Target store in Redlands, California. She took good care...
The Lesson from the Hive
Of all the people making a living from climate change, George Monbiot is one of the better known. Like many in the fundraising sector, however, he is hired as much for his heart as...
The Politics of Beekeeping
“What is your opinion about colony collapse disorder, and what is Monsanto’s role in it?” I was asked this, or something very like it, repeatedly one morning last month, as I impostered behind the...
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