Today’s guest, left, is Rhytidodera bowringii, a beetle that has “decimated mango plantations”. A single live specimen was detained on its way in to Miami. The news was released on 10 March.
Two days later, the New York Times publishes a swingeing attack on Florida mangoes.
Coincidence? I...
Back in 1998 the Royal Agricultural Society of England asked me to write an article for a little booklet designed to feed the debate on genetically engineered crops. My chapter -- Nothing new under the sun -- duly appeared. I’ve often had cause to think about it, and to reflect that I rather like i...
WHATEVER anyone else might say, America’s new nuclear and trade pact with India is a win-win deal. India gets nuclear fuel for its energy needs and America, doing far better in what might be called a stealth victory, finally gets mangoes.
Madhur Jaffrey sees the silver lining in The Fruits of...
I don’t get an awful lot of time to read books these days. Sad but true. I need something with short chapters or -- better still -- short stories so I can make the most of them before I fall asleep. It is awful picking up a book the next night, opening it right to where you left the bookmark, and re...
Er, would you mind signing this bit of paper here please? I’d hate anyone to think I was taking advantage of you.
The aim of the campaign is really to stop young men taking advantage of drunken women and having sex with them Danny Shaw BBC News
That Shaw boy surely has a way with words. Wh...
