Published in The Times, in November 1999. China is catching the trade liberalisation train just as rapidly increasing numbers of people on the rest of the world are calling on their governments to get off. Monday’s trade agreement with the US opens the way for China’s rapid accession to the […]
Twenty years of the Green Alliance
Bananas are only the warm-up act
Published in the New Statesman, on 12th March 1999. Miscalculation causes more disasters than malice. The current round of miscalculations on trade and genetically modified (GM) foods on both sides of the Atlantic could, if unchecked, cost the 21st century dearly. The banana wars dominating today’s headlines are only a […]