If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again: that could be the slogan for the European Commission proposal to renew the glyphosate licence in the EU which expires on 15 December. At 2.30pm on 27 November, the member states will once more be asked to vote to come to a qualified majority decision on the proposal for a five-year renewal of the licence of this highly controversial active substance in Monsanto’s total herbicide having been recognised as probably carcinogenic by the WHO,...