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Despite the rhetoric that bursts forth when principles of European Economic Community action are outlined, environment policy remains something of a backward region. Progress towards common action at Community level has been tardy, not through a lack of ideas but a paucity of decisions. Paul Cheeseright reports.
The Human Conspiracy (BBC2, Saturday, December 6) set out to investigate new discoveries and theories about our personal and social behaviour. N. S. Sutherland here reviews the programme with some reservations. The still below shows presenter Caroline Medawar.
