Clear recollections. Over the last few days I have referred to some of the problems in European agriculture by using terms such as “continental agriculture” and in so doing have left out the British isles. This was no slip of the pen. The permanent hostility of the United Kingdom authorities to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and their current offensive to demolish it proves that across the Channel there is a different conception of the role of agriculture in our civilisations. It...