Today’s quiz tip: grass

Q. What’s the largest crop in America?
A. Grass.
No, no … not that kind. The suburban mow-it-on-Sunday kind - occupying 30 million acres.
Just imagine how much you could grow on all of that land - things that there…

Britblog Roundup No 163

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Welcome to the Britblog roundup, the all-singing, all-dancing carnival that brings the best of the blogosphere of these islands to you in one easy show - as nominated by you, the readers. Do send your favourites to…

A visit to Bibract

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I reached the ancient Gallic hill fort of Bibract by what might be called the scenic route, over the top of the plateau from Chateau Chinon - there was a sign on the road saying something about snow tyres. Ha, I…

Sharia and the out-of-this-world archbishop

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I was doing a favour and flicking around the feminist blogosphere and found there seems to be surprisingly little on the Archbishop of Canterbury and his suggestion that the UK introduce aspects of sharia law. I suspect…

A big day

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Unfortunately I couldn’t be at the Million Women Rise March yesterday, or the Abortion Rights Women’s Day event, due to a regular six-hour Saturday meeting (Caroline Lucas, lucky woman, got to leave at lunchtime to…

A view on Joel Kovel’s The Enemy of Nature

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Joel Kovel’s The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? Is a book that’s been recommended to me from several Green quarters recently, so being on holidays and fortified by that (having…

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