Archive for November, 2009
Will the UK Conservative Party bring back foxhunting?
The Nurse despises foxhunting. While she is deeply suspicious of banning things - censorship being the thin edge of a very nasty wedge - cruelty is never acceptable. So she was interested to see, during a recent edition of the BBC’s Country File, a hunt spokesman confirm that if the Conservative Party won the next election they’d seek to reverse the foxhunting [...]
Products… do we have too much choice?
The Nurse has been watching a lot of telly recently. And she’s been amazed by the sheer choice of products available for consumers to choose from. She’s wondering whether there’s a connection between all this choice and climate change? Here are two off the cuff examples. Do we really need: hundreds of different kinds of shampoos, conditioners and hair products? countless different [...]
