The one that particularly exasperates me is the " food miles " obsession , whereby we eschew tomatoes from spain and roses flown in from kenya , in favour of local products grown in a heated greenhouse with a far greater carbon footprint .
On march 25th the human rights council ( hrc ) , a geneva-based un agency which often exasperates its western members , voted by 20 votes to 17 , with eight abstentions , for a text that lists the " defamation of religion " as an infringement of liberty .