question this right? How can funding from the public purse be used to support methods of farming that are clearly not sustainable when it could easily contain means to enhance farming and, consequently, the environment?

Hypocrisy must not be entertained: telling others how to behave with little order in our own place. Yes, dealing with our climate can show us how contrary this issue is but we have no choice. We must take it and we cannot leave it.

What is our policy on food waste? Maybe I should ask "do we have a policy?"

Is there any report on any environmental issue that can jerk us into action? Hardly.

What other concerns made me think of climate change today? The sheer decline in the bee population – perhaps our most important pollinator but this fact in not a news item at all. Why?

I will end with a line from Shakespeare which may give us some hope: “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together”.