Summary: In the Marriage Equality referendum, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-fourth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_(Marriage_Equality)_Bill_2015" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">the No side got 37.93 per cent</a>; the Conservative Party got <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2015#Results" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">36.9 per cent in the 2015 general election</a>, and won more than half the seats in the House of Commons.<br> The EU dropping regulations on powerful endocrine-disrupting chemicals linked to cancer and male infertility, under <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/22/eu-dropped-pesticide-laws-due-to-us-pressure-over-ttip-documents-reveal" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">pressure from US TTIP negotiators, is reported here</a>.<br> The use of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) by tobacco giant Philip Morris to resist plain cigarette packaging in Australia is <a href="http://www.ag.gov.au/tobaccoplainpackaging" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">documented here</a> and <a href="http://www.mccabecentre.org/focus-areas/tobacco/philip-morris-asia-challenge" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">here</a>.<br> <a href="http://www.jillianvanturnhout.ie/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Jillian van Turnhout</a>, one of the Taoiseach’s 11 nominees to Seanad Éireann <a href="https://twitter.com/JillianvT" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">tweets here</a>.<br> ‘Grandad’ publishes his curmudgeonly blogs on <a href="http://headrambles.com/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Head Rambles</a>. Evidence that advertising is successfully used to <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8421326.stm" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">fool customers about the health benefit of many foods is here</a>.<br>
