Another week, another dead cat thrown on the table by the Remain leader David Cameron. Antibiotic resistance is a major threat to public health but hardly a new one. It’s been urgent for at least 20 years, and the first cases of MRSA in the UK date back to the 1960s. The only urgency about this at the current G7 summit is that it makes it look like Dave’s doing something. He needn’t have bothered. If he really wants to cut the risk of drug resistant bugs rotting us from the inside out he needs to take an evidence based approach by leaving the EU. The EU is dominated by agribusiness sucking up subsidies and shovelling antibiotics down our chicken, pigs and cows. Our abattoirs have been closed by EU directives, and laws on drug control are easily flouted by big corporations. Norway, however, has done things the right way. It limits the free movement of livestock — huh hmm — and works very hard to cut antibiotic use. It also controls the human food chain. You won’t find Romanian donkey mince in Norway’s meatballs, and you won’t be shipping much live cattle through its ports either as it limits this —