Publicity for Blue Apron, a company selling pasture-raised, slow-growth, heirloom chickens direct to consumers as meal-kits, weekly if you want them, is a welcome development that points up the disaster that is now ubiquitous factory farming, In the Midwest, rural towns are being (have been) destroyed by huge corporations buying up land and building vast …
The following poem is excerpted from “ The Rueful Hippopotamus”, an anthology of light verse by the present author, published by ByD Press and available on Amazon: What will they say of us when we are gone, When it dawns on them all that their grandparents knew (As they wrestle with flooding, starvation and storms), …
When asked which of the main British political parties they felt an affinity with, 19% of voters said the Tories, 15% Labour, and 3% the Lib Dems; 54% said none. (Lord Ashcroft Polls/The Mail on Sunday, April 2019). The political class has betrayed the country, and the country knows it. No wonder Epicurus disliked …
Seneca commented on what is at stake when a person asks, not to mention demands, another’s time — an admonition that applies to the incessant requests for meetings, for donations and the barrage of People Wanting Things: “All those who call you to themselves draw you away from yourself.” I am always surprised to see …
To The Times A visibly noticeable benefit of Brexit is that we will be able to have whiter teeth. The problem lies with EU bureaucracy. The EU allows less than 0.1% of hydrogen peroxide in over-the-counter products, which means that their effectiveness is low. In America, up to 10% is considered safe, and Americans have …
