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22 March 2002

Rambling on
The neverending foxhunting debate shows New Labour�s disdain for the countryside, and its lack of excitement about the Town.

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21 January 2002

One lesson to be learned
As the UK government gets more stick about foot-and-mouth disease, let's get it right about what Blair and co got wrong.

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30 October 2001

Flying high
Americans seem to be panicking far less post-11 September than the British did during the Great Foot-and-Mouth Panic in spring 2001.

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Article

26 April 2001

Phoenix: cute calf, but what about the foot-and-mouth issue?
How calf, not man, makes policy.

by Sandy Starr

Article

26 April 2001

Flying to the foot-and-mouth capital
As I returned to Italy with a box of Milk Tray chocolates for my wife, I guessed what it must feel like to be a smuggler.

by Dominic Standish

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25 April 2001

Dioxin: a toxin for our times
Do the chemicals released by foot-and-mouth funeral pyres pose a threat to human health? Dr Michael Fitzpatrick unravels the great dioxin scare.

by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

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19 April 2001

Foot-and-mouth disease: what about the Baa vote?
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? A ditty on indecision.

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Article

12 April 2001

Sheep, pigs and scapegoats
Everybody from animal rights campaigners to Saddam Hussein has been blamed for starting the spread of foot-and-mouth.

by Sandy Starr

Article

12 April 2001

Making a drama out of a crisis
At every stage, the panic over foot-and-mouth has run ahead of the disease. Is it any wonder we are now in such a mess?

by Jennie Bristow

Article

12 April 2001

Dirty man of Europe: a phrasebook
Essential vocab for Brits abroad this Easter.

by Josie Appleton

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5 April 2001

On holiday in foot-and-mouth country
How can the UK government hope to encourage tourists towards a diseased countryside, when the local inhabitants can't even walk their dogs?

by Jennie Bristow

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4 April 2001

The price of precaution
The official endorsement of the BSE inquiry marked the acceptance of the precautionary principle as a central tenet of government - and the response to foot-and-mouth reveals just how high the cost of this principle is.

by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

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2 April 2001

The strange affair of the election that never was
'Public support for cancelling the election amid the foot-and-mouth crisis was always an expression of the anti-political mood of our times.'

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2 April 2001

When foot-and-mouth didn't make the front page
How the UK media reported the last major foot-and-mouth outbreak in 1967.

by Brendan O'Neill

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Article

29 March 2001

Intensive farming debates
Why is there such opposition to modern farming techniques?

by Brendan O'Neill

Column

29 March 2001

Supermarkets are - super
They stand accused of everything from killing the high street to fuelling the foot-and-mouth crisis. But what have supermarkets done to deserve it - other than providing a large variety of nice, cheap food?

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Article

29 March 2001

Urban prejudices, rural myths
Why we should all stop romanticising the countryside.

by Frank Furedi

Column

22 March 2001

An outbreak of anti-election fever
'We are left with a raging national debate over when the general election should be, while the small matter of what that election is actually going to be about passes almost without comment.'

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Article

16 March 2001

Ireland cancels St Patrick's Day
As the rest of the world goes Celtic for St Patrick's Day, the Emerald Isle cancels celebrations through fear of foot-and-mouth.

by Brendan O'Neill

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15 March 2001

Things fall apart
'We seem to have lost sight of any distinction between rational measures to cope with an animal disease, and the irrational attempt to put the countryside (if not the entire country) into quarantine.'

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Article

15 March 2001

Minister: precautionary principle has 'got out of hand'
UK minister for the environment Michael Meacher today conceded that, in responding to the foot-and-mouth outbreak, 'the precautionary principle perhaps got out of hand because we did not understand all of the issues'.

by spiked-geist

Article

12 March 2001

National life is indefinitely postponed
How Britain, paralysed by fear, is closing itself down.

by Josie Appleton

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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick

7 March 2001

FMD: another outbreak of panic
'For New Labour, the lesson of the BSE crisis is that, far from trying to contain any health scare that arises, it should seize the opportunity to promote it.'

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7 March 2001

Country life goes on
'Who needs an exclusion zone to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease when you have the UK railways?'

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2 March 2001

A national nervous breakdown
'What possible connection could there be between an animal disease, a flood and a fatal train crash?'

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Article

2 March 2001

Foot-and-mouth: 'People have overreacted'
Sean Rickard, former chief economist of the National Farmers' Union, looks at the foot-and-mouth outbreak in perspective.

by Tony Gilland

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23 February 2001

Foot-and-mouth disease: let's come to our senses
It cannot be predicted how many more cases of foot-and-mouth disease will occur as a result of this latest outbreak. But the panic seems certain to reach epidemic proportions.

by Tony Gilland