Food waste again...

You can tell when a politician is really on the ropes when they get pilloried for making an eminently sensible remark. Now, I'm no fan of Gordon Brown, but when he said we should waste less food, he was damn right.

There was a great article in the Guardian yesterday with tips on how to avoid food waste. One of the points was to ignore sell-by dates for most products - I assume the 10-years-past-its-best-before bottle of Lea & Perrins I found that the back of our spice cupboard is an exception - I wasn't going to try it!

Will green taxes be the victim of Gordo's woes?

Everyone and their dog knows that Gordon Brown is in trouble. What bothers me is the informed speculation that the increased car tax for polluting vehicles and pilots into pay-as-you-throw are at serious risk as the brooding PM tries to claw back some lost ground. Green taxation has already dropped under the Labour Government.

I was giving a speech on climate change to over a hundred energetic older people at an University of the 3rd Age meeting yesterday, and plenty thought that the Government were using it as an excuse to raise taxes. It's like this barmy idea that speed cameras are an infringement of civil liberties.

Let's make it simple:

Don't speed => no speeding tickets

Don't pollute => no green taxes

How can it mean anything else?