It's this broader version of the "Protestant work ethic" that Cantoni exposes to scrutiny, since the German cities of the Holy Roman Empire that he analyses were mostly either Lutheran or Catholic. (There were Calvinist cities, but their joyless creed doesn't seem to have made a difference.) The abstract of , reads as follows:

Col Black said the Mirror apology was essential because those maligned were more than simply the representatives of a corporate body, they were "the young lads and lasses of this county".

"The high participation rate of families of core fast-food workers in public programs can be attributed to three major factors: the industry's low wages, low work hours and low benefits," the UC Berkeley/U. Illinois report .

A similar battle over GE sugar beets is also underway, with a federal court earlier this month , which were planted in September despite an injunction.

The performance on 20 June will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3After that brief excursion into the realms of , let me return to more familiar territory. Diego Garcia has no permanent inhabitants, but the Indian Ocean island is in the news once again. It turns out that American planes carrying prisoners for "extraordinary rendition" transited through Diego Garcia in 2002.