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Dear Ed,
Firstly congratulations on your Election as the leader of the Labour party. I supported you from the start and you got my First preference vote. I even made a small donation to your campaign so I am delighted that you have won.
As a small time political blogger from the Westcountry it is hugely presumptuous of me to give you any advice. However self important presumptuousness is something of the hall mark of political blogging so here I go, a few bits of advice:-
1. Remember that you said this in
Continue reading Letter to Ed Miliband
When recording the recent CWU Youth podcast with Libel Reform one of the interesting points of the discussion came about when we were discussing the differences between public interest, and things which interest the public. Perhaps a subtle distinction, but one that is very, very important in respect of the issues around the freedom of the press, the status of libel law, and the private sphere.
A couple of weeks ago allegations surrounding the sex life of England footballer Wayne Rooney surfaced which has led to me thinking a lot about
Continue reading Time for a privacy law?
One of the big reasons for doing Vegtember is to try and consume food in a more sustainable way. There are reasons why eating less meat helps in this. But one of the biggest environmental factors in respect of food is the “food miles”. How far the food has to travel to get to your store, or to your plate.
This is an issue for meat, and for vegetarian products. This is especially pronounced when food stuffs are perishable and need to be refrigerated as they are transported.
One of the best
Continue reading Vegtember: Local Farmers Market
It is starting to get cold again, and as always when cold my thoughts turn to soups and stews. I cant help thinking a stew might be pretty disappointing sans meat. But most soups I cook are Vegetarian anyhow, so I thought that soup was most definitely the way to go!
So I decided to go to the grocers and just to see what takes my fancy. They had a number of Butternut Squashes that looked ripe and lovely so I snapped them up. I like soup to be hearty, tasty,
Continue reading Vegtember: Butternut Squash Soup
Since mooting the suggestion of doing Vegtember, and explaining some of the reasons why, many people have spoken to me about meat replacement products. Specifically many people have extolled the virtues of Quorn chicken style pieces (other meat replacement products are available).
I have been told on many fronts that the chicken pieces are a perfectly adequate replacement for normal cheap chicken and great for stir-fries and curries etc, with the added advantage of being healthier, cheaper and easier than using chicken.
I must say I was dubious. Ages ago when cooking
Continue reading Vegtember: Quorn Satay Curry
I am not a “believer” (‘cept perhaps a misplaced faith that Plymouth Argyle will one day pay in the top flight) and in fact I describe my religion on Facebook as an “evangelical rationalist”. It is perfectly fair to say that I am an in principle secularist and I am frequently appalled by organised religion in general; and have recently been extremely appalled by the Roman Catholic church in particular.
The man who should be Pope
For my money the Churches role in covering up Child Abuse is disgraceful, the awful
Continue reading Papal visit is price of Liberal society.
At lunch today I was perusing t’interweb and I read this article about Chillies in the Grauniad. Having read that there was only ever going to be one thing I could have for dinner tonight and that is Vegetarian Chilli.
Now as one of the challenges I am hoping to do at some point this month, particularly at the urging of this thread on h2g2, I did consider making this with Soya Mince. However I decided in the end to save that for another day (might make a Malaysian Satay curry
Continue reading Vegtember: Three Bean Chilli
Following the TUC the right wing press has engaged in a predictable round of hysterical union bashing. “Who Governs?” is the now pretty much bog standard attack on Trade Unions any time they oppose something the Government of the day is doing.
This represents a profound misrepresentation of the kind of political system we live in. Constitutionally only the Government can pass laws (well Parliament if you want to be a stickler for accuracy) but we live in a Liberal Democratic system. That means we have something called “pluralism”, different groups
Continue reading Britain, Democracy not Dictatorship
It has been quite a frustrating weekend in terms of the Vegtember stuff. I had planned to record a video blog about going to a Farmers market to buy some locally produced goods. But unfortunately the advertised one in Plymouth was not actually taking place (bloody interweb being unreliable). So my big plan was out of the window. If anyone knows where an alternative one is taking place in Devon before the end of the month (and preferably somewhere easy to get to on the train) then do drop me
Continue reading Vegtember: Goats Cheese Ratatouille
Had a late finish at work tonight and some ingredients that needed eating up. I had little idea of what to cook, walking home it struck me…. why not do a Masterchef style “invention test”.
So I got all my ingredients out, set the timer for half an hour and came up with the following. Now I have to be honest, I didn’t stick to the 30 minutes it wasn’t ready and I realised that rather than being on telly in a prestige cooking competition I was alone in my flat
Continue reading Vegtember: Masterchef Invention Test
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