We need to keep the GM debate alive and urgent
In 2002 the pro-GM Labour Government held a national debate to test public opinion on GM food. When the findings of the GM Nation?...
Nice Bentley, Mr Scabbins
The keynote speaker at last Friday’s National Health Store Conference, Geoff Burch, cut a slightly unlikely figure for a gathering of natural products retailers....
The good earth
In the New Year the Soil Association is to get a rebrand. The most visible change will be the organic charity's new logo, which...
Goodbye to all that?
To delist, or not to delist, that was the question being asked earlier this week at the Ex-Factor Seminar at Natural & Organic Products...
A note from the editor: You’re not alone
NPN editor Rosie Greenaway shares her thoughts on the rapidly changing situation the world now faces during the coronavirus pandemic.
Why real change is best served up on a plate
At the back end of last year the former director of the Soil Association, Patrick Holden, undertook a coast to coast tour of the...
Could your store do with a spot of re-cluttering?
Two or three years ago (just like their UK counterparts) America's biggest retailers started slimming down their inventories and clearing aisles for a cleaner,...
It’s the system, Mary
So, Mary Portas, Queen of Shops, has been drafted in by Coalition ministers to lead an independent review into the state of British retailing.
Straightaway...
Environmentally challenged
I wonder if George Osborne might come to regret the slightly self-satisfied way he told the House of Commons last week "we are not...
Back to the earth
The philosopher Mary Midgley has written extensively about what modern thinkers can learn from Nature. She also suggests that we can all learn from...
Organic and Green? It’s our bling.
Residents of Tunbridge Wells are usually acutely aware of their ‘disgusted of’ reputation. We live each day as a national joke (yes, I speak...
So, you think you’re normal?
Deprived of the low-hanging fruit of medical research, the drugs industry now has to spend ever more vast sums of money to research and...
Regulatory threats … and opportunities
“Next week”, announced the dulcet-toned Charlotte Green, “Radio 4 will broadcast the first in a two part-series in which Lord Gus O'Donnell makes a...