One of the first actions the British Government took after their withdrawal from the EU on the 1st January was to vote to allow a pesticide (neonicotinoid thiamethoxam) to be used by farmers on sugar beet: a pesticide that is banned under EU law because it kills bees and other pollinators. The implications for our countryside – a countryside whose diversity has been devastated over the past eighty years due to the rise of industrial agriculture – hardly bears contemplation....
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