Category: Food

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Conservatives Vote to Starve English Children

    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 UK governments voting down of providing free school meals for pupils across England. The Tories have gone and done it again! These bunch of self-serving crooks…

  • Post Brexit Food Standards!

    This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on Post Brexit Food Standards! In June this year I wrote about the ruling Conservative party voting to compromise high UK standards by pushing through the controversial Agriculture Bill in parliament by 51 votes! This bill moved to…

  • Food vs iPads

      This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on Covid-19’s devastating fallout on the world’s  economy, food and people. What has Covid-19 taught us so far? I have been researching and reading lots of articles and opinions by experts in the field of science, environment,…

  • Tories pushing Scotland and rUK over the cliff

    This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on a Brexit extension beyond December 2020 and the devastating fallout on Scotland’s economy, food and people… Michael Gove has done it again! The cheerleader for the Vote Leave campaign which was founded in October 2015 by political…

  • UK Food Standards Compromised After Brexit

    This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on the Agriculture Bill going through Westminster and the House of Lords and the lowering of food import standards after Brexit. I am lost for words as it is becoming very clear to me that the UK is…

  • Reality Bites as UK needs Farmworkers from the EU

    What a fine mess we find ourselves in during the COVID-19 pandemic that is sweeping the world. The sector that was already struggling before the virus hit us was farming. Due to the rise of English nationalism which was followed by Brexit and the unwelcoming attitudes of all Brexiteers to European nationals; we now fully…

  • Radical changes to our food policies

    It’s been a week now since we are in semi-lockdown and what a emotional roller coaster it has been for all of us here in the UK and around the globe. Since news went viral on social media that 3 cases of coronavirus have been identified in the Borders, locals in the region went berserk…

  • What happens to our food rights post Brexit?

    This week Bosco Santimano  shares his thoughts on the UK leaving the European Union. Finally its happened! We have officially left the European Union for “Unity, Peace and stability”. It’s taken three and a half years, three Prime Ministers and two elections to finally get to this stage. The initial process is now complete and…