Since this page was compiled, there have been many many more excellent articles by Simon Jenkins, Matthew Parris, George Monbiot, Christopher Booker, Magnus Linklater and Geoffrey Lean - and others - gratefully reproduced or linked to on warmwell. When time permits they will be indexed here. Meanwhile, if you are looking for a particular article, it is best to use the warmwell advanced search page and include both writer's name and the subject you are interested in.
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the right button on the mouse and "open in new window" when you click on the articlesJune 4 ~ Simon Jenkins ~ I spy with my little eye...a new Frank inquiry The Times June 4 2003
April 12 ~ Matthew Parris ~ It's time we all signed up for the Rest of the World team The Times
Feb 26 2003~ Simon Jenkins ~ The Church may be lost but save our churches The Times
Feb 16 ~ Matthew Parris ~ Forgotten, ignored, scared. And on the march today The Times
Dec 19 2002~ Magnus Linklater ~ "A bovine attempt to vaccinate us against the truth" The Times
Oct 5 ~ Martin Jacques ~ The Age of Selfishness Guardian
Oct 5 ~ Simon Heffer ~ The Prince is right (Spectator)
Sept 25 ~ Simon Jenkins ~ This is not a dossier but an act of desperation (Essential reading on the IRAQ adventure)
Aug 18 ~ Gavin McCrone, Vice-Chairman, Royal Society of Edinburgh Inquiry into Foot and Mouth Disease~ Vaccination a tool of first resort in foot and mouth Scotland on Sunday, 18 August 2002
Aug 15 ~ Emma Tennant ~ Lessons Not Learned - The Anderson Report (Spectator)
July 12 ~ Emma Tennant ~ FIBS and Foot and Mouth (Spectator)
Aug 11 ~ Geoffrey Lean ~ A government too concerned with headlines will scupper the planet (Observer)
Aug 10 ~ Matthew Parris Another bold initiative? No change there, then (Times)
Aug 9 ~ Max Hastings ~ The hounding of country folk (Spectator)
Aug 5 ~ Jeremy Seabrook ~ Unlimited desire is bound to destroy a world of limited resources (Guardian)
Aug 4 ~ John Humphreys ~Knowledge is power: that's why we're a secret society
July 28 ~ Jonathan Dimbleby ~ Our future's more important than four little words ...
July 28 ~ Magnus Linklater - So that's it then. No one to blame for F&M disaster
July 28 ~ Geoffrey Lean ~ A foot and mouth fiasco that has taught us nothing
July 28 ~ Booker and North ~ Silence of the Damned
June 29 ~ Magnus Linklater ~Prevention was always better than slaughter
March 2 ~Prince Charming and the panto that lost the plot Matthew Parris
Feb21 ~ Magnus Linklater ~ The truth still lies buried in Britain's empty fields or on this website in full
Feb 20 ~ Times Leader
Jan 26 ~ Matthew Parris The Times ~ Another initiative? Don't make me laugh
Dec 20 2001 ~ Matthew Parris The Times a selection
Dec 15 ~ Matthew Parris The Times on the end of his Parliamentary Sketch writing It's been great, but I'm all sketched out
Dec 13 ~ Don't starve this BSE research of vital fundsThe Times MAGNUS LINKLATER Dec 13
Nov 12 ~ William Rees-Mogg on President Blair's House of Cards
Nov 11 ~ Christopher Booker on National Trust and other dirty goings on in Britain and Europe
Nov 9 ~ Simon Jenkins in The Times "A banana republic led by a set of lemons"
Nov 7 ~ Simon Jenkins We have a president, now for a Parliament
Nov 6 ~ Magnus Linklater in The Times Blinded by the funeral pyres
Nov 4 ~ After the slaughter comes the Bill to make it legal
Sunday Telegraph Christopher Booker's NotebookNov 4 ~ Jonathan Miller in Sunday Times It's not just Afghanistan that needs accountable, democratic institutions to replace the corrupt horrors of a regime that seized power with the support of perhaps 25% of the people
Magnus Linklater October 29 - A germ of anxiety in the labs Oct 25 The Times
Oct 19 ~ "It is impossible to describe the mental torture caused by the threat of the plague. Each case is a bereavement, a human tragedy, and one for which the policymakers carry a responsibility. The fear of losing our life's work, the difficulty of farming under the burden of new restrictions administered by incompetent officials, and the feeling that the politicians were following the wrong advice, added up to a nightmare" Emma Tennant, writing in the Spectator
Oct 14 ~ Extracts from Robbie Robinson's article, Living under the Shadow of the Effects of Disease
October ~ These articles, mainly from British Dairying, are as relevant now as they were when they were published. They are well worth printing out and reading carefully.
September 17 ~ Muckspreader in Private Eye
September 16 ~ Christopher Booker's notebook September 2 How annoying that farm virus will not obey rules - by Christopher Booker
Sunday TelegraphWilly Poole has his own website where his articles on FMD can be readClick here to get to his website
Dr Richard North "How Labour Killed the Countryside" Sept 1
The Sunday Times August 26 "Dead Meat" by Richard Girling - really well worth reading in its entirety
Christopher Booker and Richard North - How the foot and mouth disaster of 2001 began - Aug 12 - Sunday Telegraph
Christopher Booker's Notebook - Aug 12 Head of rural affairs gives small farmers little hope Sunday Telegraph
Christopher Booker (and Dr Richard North) articles in the Telegraph March - June 2001
George Monbiot,Rout of the small farm - Guardian Tuesday August 7, 2001. See also ...George Monbiot: How the Superstores gave us Foot and Mouth and ..Had the ministry of agriculture set out to spread foot and mouth as far and wide as possible, it could scarcely have done a better job.
Peter Oborne - Downing Street wants to exploit foot-and-mouth: to vilify farmers and "modernise" farming...(or see the full article on website's INBOX) The Spectator August 10
Christopher Booker - Daily Mail August 7 "A conspiracy to kill off the countryside"
Jonathan Miller Sunday Times Aug 5..the flock on the mountains is now immune to it, testing positive for antibodies. So now they must be killed, too
Christopher Booker Telegraph Aug 3 ...the mass-slaughter on the hills of South Wales, which is inflicting such despair on the local community, has nothing whatever to do with disease control.
Simon Jenkins Times Aug 1 ...You must vaccinate or be damned, Mr Gill
Pindar's poem - Telegraph aug 1
Christopher Booker July 29 Booker Notebook, 29 July 2001 Mr Blair may have exploded...
Magnus Linklater July 29
-Slaughter is mark of a failed policyDr Richard North July 24
- The farce just goes on and on Daily MailChristopher Booker July 22
Blair puts paid to six centuries of traditionWilly Poole in Horse and Hound July 10th A distressing record of slaughter during the foot-and -mouth crisis also July 26th and again on August 2 "suspicion"
Magnus Linklater April 26th
From the start, the Government has consistently got foot-and-mouth wrongDavid Rose Sunday April 15, 2001 The Observer
Why farming will never be the same