Clever

  I’ve just had an email from the Corbyn campaign (you’ve already got my vote Jeremy!) – I get about five a day from the various candidates.   It contained this paragraph: ‘We cannot write off rural areas as “the Tory shires”, abandoning communities struggling with issues such as housing costs, public service cuts and…

Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill

  According to the Guardian newspaper, the Expert Committee on Pesticides was told by Defra to postpone publication of minutes after refusing to back an NFU request to use banned neonicotinoids on oil seed rape. On Thursday Defra lifted the ban on use of the controversial neonicotinoid pesticides on oil seed rape seeds on an…