Monthly Archives: December 2011

When the Animals Speak

Posted on December 25, 2011 by Carl Bennett

The village where I live reached its tipping point years ago. Every shop has gone because people stopped shopping there. Four of the eight houses I call my immediate neighbours are only used at weekends, and not every weekend at [...]

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Mary Portas: Jeder Sollte Sich

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Carl Bennett

Mary Portas recently did a study of the state of the High Street for David Cameron. Quite how she was selected to do this I don’t know and surely it must have been on more than the strength of her [...]

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Books, Chickens & Publicists

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Carl Bennett

Lucy Mangan was on Radio 4 when I was driving home today. She writes things for the Guardian, usually accompanied like every serious writer these days by a picture of her in case the reader needs to know what she [...]

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Local Food: the broken chain

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Carl Bennett

 
 
 
The East Anglian Daily Times (EADT) ran a special farming feature on Saturday December 3rd. Local food campaigner Lady Caroline Cranbrook had her own special feature, looking at the importance of the local food chain.
Almost every paragraph was pumped full [...]

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