In 2010 Parisians sacked the private water companies. Now they are reaping the benefits of public cownership and control, writes Stephen Struthers - and it's high time for the UK to do the same.
… things the French do better than us - like wine, camembert and the romantic whispering of …
How we farm matters, writes Pat Thomas - not just for water, insects, birds and the wider environment, which benefit from organic farming, but also the nutritional value of our food. It's time to value the quality of what we eat, instead of prizing quantity above all.
… vegetable and grains (as well as baby foods, wine and seed oils). Had the authors also …
One hundred years ago this August, guns rang out as a Europe made unstable by hatred, nationalism and a complex web of treaties went to war. Now the entire world appears poised for conflagration, writes Guy Horton. But where are the leaders to pull us from the brink?
… ended up talking like this after a bottle of wine, he added. The Guns of August reverberate …
As well as being masters of water engineering, the Romans also engaged in a long distance trade in water across the Mediterranean - embodied in grain, oil, wine, cloth, metals and other goods. They also discovered the food-water-energy nexus - and not in a good way. We need to heed the warnings from Roman history.
… the Mediterranean - embodied in grain, oil, wine, cloth, metals and other goods. They also … response to climate change is deeply entwined with a sustainable untangling of the …
Hot date? Annie Levy shares some bitter-sweet, spicy secrets for a very special Valentine's night ... guaranteed rhino horn free, and not tested on animals.
… is wonderful for certain people. As is nice wine. And of course gestures of love, of help, …
For the US fracking industry - and for Vice-President Joe Biden - fracking is more than just a way to bring in vast amounts of cash, writes Steve Horn. It's also a key weapon in the US's long war with Russia, as Biden made clear this week in Kiev.
… in the making. In other words, it's ' old wine in a new bottle '. Gas 'support package' …
The IPCC's latest report makes a stark contrast with Osborne's recent budget, writes Molly Scott Cato. It was all about sacrificing our future for short term benefit - when as the IPCC makes clear, what we need is the precise opposite.
… shares in non-trading companies, empty wine cellars in Bordeaux, never-to-be-built …