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"When we grow spring onions in the UK, 60% of the cost is labour," says Derek Wilkinson, managing director at G's Fresh. "In Senegal, labour counts for less than one third ."

“Social media continues to rapidly evolve at a blistering pace that forces society to adapt to the growing distractions. The pertinent question, as ever in history, remains: How did we get here, and where do we go from here? ” My comment: Your 'solution' is vague. Who is the educator? How would you propagate education? Social media platforms owned by big business. What margin do you have to influence the content, the people involved, in spaces you do not own or have control over? Take the example of those social media warriors who have been creating counter-misinformation clips and posts on Facebook or the BBC’s Fact Check. They have not prevented the continuous growth of the far right. 

Emmeline Pankhurst, probably the most venerated in the mainstream British media, defended the presence and reach of the British Empire:  Some talk about the Empire and Imperialism as if it were something to decry and something to be ashamed of. [I]t is a great thing to be the inheritors of an Empire like ours ... great in territory, great in potential wealth. ... If we can only realise and use that potential wealth we can destroy thereby poverty, we can remove and destroy ignorance. For years she travelled around England and North America, rallying support for the British Empire and warning audiences about the dangers of Bolshevism. Quoted in June Purvis, Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography , London 2002

Author says she is ‘disgusted’ by claim from jury president Wim Wenders that film-makers should remain apolitical .