In survey after survey, English shoppers say they trust supermarkets to deliver high quality produce. Fools. They just aren’t equipped to do so.
Organic carrots bought recently at Waitrose carry a picture of Peter Cornish, one of its “carefully selected growers”, on the back of the pack, but i...
Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.3 This week: 88.3
Tuesday 26 June: Well, I’m not going to make it to a 10kg loss, I don’t suppose. At least, not within the year. But it would be nice to shed just a little more. Managed to abandoned the cornetto most days without any problem, which suggests that I wa...
Down by the river this morning, a faint sweet whiff of aerosol spray paint alerted me that the Great Artist had been in action. Two pieces on the embankment. In the first, see below, a new twist on an old theme:
To one side, in Italian, obviously: Il cane è il migliore amico della donna. The d...
I have no idea what happened in the last episode of The Sopranos.1 As far as I am concerned, Christopher’s girlfriend has just been befriended by her FBI agent. One day, surely, I’ll catch up. As I caught up with NPR’s Pop Culture podcasts, however, I was struck by just how much attention the ques...
Fish stories excite me. I don't know why. I can think of few things less interesting than sitting on a riverbank watching a float bob. But scientific investigations of similar topics make my pulse race, maybe because there can be few subjects that so perfectly illustrate the all-too-human inability...
