An outing from the village occurred last Friday. It offered a chance to witness a rare terrestrial alignment of our local MP Danny Kruger with his mother, The Oldie’s Prue Leith, plus Soil Association and resilience- farming do-gooders. All these lined up on a stage at Carvers, one of Wiltshire’s climate-change-enabled vineyards. Prue and her son famously disagree on assisted dying. Would she support his new membership of a populist right-wing party of the sort sweeping through Europe and deposing the traditional middle-ground party, I wondered. Resilience is a buzz word: how can we make farming and food procurement resilient in a world of global systemic collapse? Think local was the conclusion to the debate – local abattoirs and farms supplying local schools with proper food. Dame Prue said the education needs to come from the bottom up – children need to be taught how to cook and what good...
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