Plastic bag catch-up

Now that it is the Easter holidays I can catch up on some of the supposedly great issues of our time. The first is plastic bags. In Britain the campaign against these useful items has had the support of Gordon Brown, the prime minister, and the Daily Mail newspaper. However, Dick Taverne of Sense About Science has exposed how the campaign against them is based on faulty science. In addition, Angus Kennedy has written on spiked about how the hysterical campaign against plastic bags is causing job losses in the East.