The War On Capitalism

Walking around a Cold Storage supermarket with the missus in the late afternoon, as she devoted herself to the cult of shopping, it came to me that now was the time to declare war on capitalism. I did so by refusing to buy anything other than what we really needed. Unfortunately there seemed to be plenty left to buy since it seems we need so much. But I must say, one of life's simpler pleasures is going round one of those huge hyper-markets and buying just a couple of items. This could be the start of something small.

Heard on the World Service earlier today: the production of bio-fuels is likely to play havoc with world food prices. It looks like we're screwing up yet again.