So setting some standards for them might be a good thing regardless.

EU already has lots of protected terms on food. Certain food types can only use the protected term if they meet some criteria (e.g. minimum content level or location of manufacture). I expect this is just trying to use the existing legal mechanism by adding “sausage” and “burger” and nothing more sinister.

I think your ideas for labelling are all good though.

Fact is, meat is expensive and meatless products are cheaper to produce. You could very easily see a company making meatless versions of products just to increase margins, and then saying “it’s vegetarian” as a defence when confronted.

Clear labelling stops that and helps the consumer stay informed about what they are buying. Vegetarian products don’'t have their reputation dragged through the mud by deceptive companies. Everybody wins except those who try to deceive.

It’s about factual labelling, so people know what they’re eating. Not trying to get people to behave in a certain way.

“inflation busting”? No.

Just inflationary.

Sorry to point it out, but the US is now threatening the whole of Europe in its latest foreign strategy report, not just Greenland and Canada.

I’m surprised there isn’t cross party support for Ukraine in Canada. You have a similar system to us in the UK. Here the only party that doesn’t support Ukraine is Reform, the Kremlin mouthpiece party who only have 4 MPs.

Saw the parliamentary session questioning the police chiefs responsible for banning the Tel Aviv away fans to the recent football game. The MPs started the session with declarations of interest.

Chair: I welcome our first witness, on our first panel, in the one-off session that our Committee is holding to investigate the events surrounding the decision to ban away fans at the Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv game. Before we start, there will be some declarations of interest. I declare that I am an officer and member of the Conservative Friends of Israel.

Jo White: I am a member of Labour Friends of Israel.

Mr Kohler: I have received a donation of £2,000 from the Lib Dem Friends of Israel.

Peter Prinsley: I am a Jewish Labour MP.

So the US just released a foreign policy document that says that the emergence of nationalist parties across Europe is cause for hope and to be supported in order to help Europe realign with the US.

That’s a plan for undermining the governments of the EU and instigating regime change. US social media is their tool of choice. It needs to be shut down. Yes, people might clamour for an alternative, but they can have them. They just need to not be controlled by the US oligarchy.

Edit: literally the next article in my feed

Really tells you what sort of opinion they have of the public, doesn’t it.

Paramount / Skydance closed and that was a really dirty affair with links to the president and corrup…

Oh!

So what was the point of that little performance then?

Either she should have stood her ground and not resigned (my view) or she should be persona non grata. Coming back after a few months is rather pathetic.

Probably because history doesn’t give us many women to make statues of. That’s either due to most women living fairly mundane lives due to social norms of the time, or because they just didn’t get recorded. Either way, they are lost to us.

I assume they’ll be investigating the Caribbean boat strikes soon?

How does having to comply with standards lower than ours force us to lower standards? We’d already exceed them and so there would be no reason to change any regulations.

Right, but it’s not just about end of life lines. Washington said to Europe that if they use their bought and paid for weapons in certain ways the US would block maintenance supplies. For things like the F35, this grounds them immediately as they need service after every flight.

The US would never allow a foreign government to veto it’s use of weapons. Why should Europe?

The last one was plain old dodgy rust code.

A fair translation of “posh twat”, but a bit cumbersome.

Keep it simple. You’re chuffed about it. Not “right chuffed” otherwise you’re over-egging it.

Don’t forget the antonym “narked”.

I would say yes, or at least there’s no reason that a doctor has to run a business in order for a GP surgery to exist. They are medical practices, not small business managers.