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  • Prevention is better than cure

    This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on why we should change our eating habits post Covid and concentrate our efforts more on prevention in the future. The current pandemic has highlighted one very important factor whereby the majority of deaths caused where due to…

  • Abolish the Monarchy in the United Kingdom

    Having moved to Peebles in 2002, ‘Stooriefit’ Bosco Santimano gives us his own take on what he feels is the hot topic of the day. This week it’s racism in the United Kingdoms sacred institution; The Monarchy! They say power corrupts, but absolute power corrupts absolutely! The Monarchy is the perfect example of the utter…

  • Reduce meat and dairy consumption to reverse the impact of climate change

    This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on how we can live on a less meat diet that does not have a devastating impact on our planet. When we talk about climate change, it mostly refers to reducing our air or food miles and moving from…

  • Western Democracy! Fact or Fiction?

    Having moved to Peebles in 2002, ‘Stooriefit’ Bosco Santimano gives us his own take on what he feels is the hot topic of the day. This week it’s Trump’s acquittal and the long-term impact it will have on Democracy around the world and on the divisions within the US of A. After the appalling sight…

  • Sustainable farming methods is the best way forward after the pandemic.

    This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on our knowledge of where and how our food is produced and the far-reaching consequences of not changing our current commercial food production to a more local and sustainable form of farming.  In the last few decades humanities…

  • Depraved Tories steal from poor children

    This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on the scandalous state of affairs of companies linked to Tories providing free school meals to pupils in England. Brexit has finally happened and citizens of the UK are slowly waking up to the reality of the consequences…

  • Brexit Saga Ends -Breakup of UK Begins

    Having moved to Peebles in 2002, ‘Stooriefit’ Bosco Santimano gives us his own take on what he feels is the hot topic of the day. This week it’s the beginning of the end of the Tory party because of its decade long austerity, divisions on class, extreme poverty, hungry children and the final nail in…

  • Recycling Tools Project Scuppered Due to local politics!

    Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on how a successful reuse project set up under the You Can Grow umbrella was scuppered by nepotism, favouritism and local politics! During the final year of delivering our pioneering growing project “Food for Life” at St. Ronan’s primary school, Innerleithen;…

  • Teach them young

    This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on growing food as a subject alongside home economics in schools. One thing the Covid-19 pandemic has definitely taught us is that humanity has to get its act together in order to survive on this planet. No more…

  • Priti Patel – The Tories Poster Girl for How to be a Bully!

    Having moved to Peebles in 2002, ‘Stooriefit’ Bosco Santimano gives us his own take on what he feels is the hot topic of the day. This week it’s bullying and Boris Johnson’s support for his Home Secretary Priti Patel despite the conclusion of an inquiry into these allegations. It beggars belief that anyone at the…