In The Independent today:
Behind these divisions over terror, a political consensus is starting to emerge - Steve Richards
This is not the new world, just more of the old - Adrian Hamilton
Why do we ignore the abuse of women? - Johann Hari
If you want to see green living, go to 'old' Europe - Mary Dejevsky
The cost of cheap food – and hot air - Terence Blacker
A rare moment of transatlantic convergence - Rupert Cornwell
The iron fist needs all of its rivets tightening - Simon Carr's Sketch
The best of the rest:
Bin those plastic bags - Boris Johnson, The Telegraph
Actions speak loudest to terrorists, Mr Brown - Michael Burleigh, The Telegraph
How to deal with blatant blackmail - Anatole Kaletsky , The Times
My perfect national motto - Matthew Parris, The Times
The threat from terrorism does not justify slicing away our freedoms - Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian
An uprising may be the only way to dislodge the general - Seumas Milne, The Guardian
It's madness to say middle-class drinkers are more of a problem than yobs in Vomit Alley - Stephen Glover, The Daily Mail
Potentially misleading information? Pull the other one, Miss Smith! - Quentin Letts, The Daily Mail
Boris is right. It is great that local councils have taken the decision to ban plastic bags. How long the total ban will take to come into fact is unknown (at least to me). So in the meantime I would suggest that shoppers who really need a bag at a supermarket take one from the supermarket's plastic-bag-recycling bin (where I live, in Balham, Waitrose and Sainsbury both have these bins close to the check outs. Tesco doesn't and neither does Marks & Spencer or As Nature Intended - boos all round especially for the latter which is positioning itself as an organic, ecologically friendly store). Okay it's a sticking plater on a gaping wound but by reusing rather than recycling an unwanted bag the supermarkets would save both on the energy needed to transport the bags to that used to recycle them.
Posted by: graeme kay | Monday, 19 November 2007 at 09:43 AM