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In the Marriage Equality referendum, the No side got 37.93 per cent; the Conservative Party got 36.9 per cent in the 2015 general election, and won more than half the seats in the House of Commons.
The EU dropping regulations on powerful endocrine-disrupting chemicals linked to cancer and male infertility, under pressure from US TTIP negotiators, is reported here.
The use of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) by tobacco giant Philip Morris to resist plain cigarette packaging in Australia is documented here and here.
Jillian van Turnhout, one of the Taoiseach’s 11 nominees to Seanad Éireann tweets here.
‘Grandad’ publishes his curmudgeonly blogs on Head Rambles. Evidence that advertising is successfully used to fool customers about the health benefit of many foods is here.