Verdict: FMNR is an inexpensive way for farmers to make improvements with the resources they already have, increasing millet harvests from 430kg to 750kg a hectare, and saving money on fertilisers, with restored trees producing leaf litter (forming humus) and giving shade to livestock (for manure).
Since we allowed this, over 14,000 offences have been successfully matched to over 8,000 suspects including over 100 murders and 100 rapes - and as far as I am aware, no one is on the database for dropping litter!
It's partly because they're filled with holes, telephone boxes, grates, craters, broken glass, trees, pedestrians, parked cars, waiting cabs and litter bins; but mostly because they stop and start suddenly, up on high kerbs, so to get off the road and on to them safely I'd have to master some nifty manoeuvre to do with quantum bi-location, atomic wormholes and halting earth time.
Under the SOCPA, a person can be arrested for any offence - even dropping litter.
One of the buildings' common areas has a pile of litter; a resident who's showing me around says, "People here have lived amidst garbage.
Lately, it's like Chigley, only with vastly more litter, pollution and personal trainers.
The 25% of people who drop litter enrage the rest of us, because there's nothing much we can do.
One teargas grenade thrown back by a protester landed on a pile of litter beside a library, igniting a small fire.
The Fabians' solution to stemming the Ukip tide was a combination of switching to community-based campaigning on doorstop issues like "like pay day loan and betting shops, litter picks and night safety campaigns", to national policy focus on cost of living, housing ringfences for local people, or introducing the contributory principle to welfare.
But the school's curriculum has helped to counter that: both children took part in a litter-pick that bagged-up 70kg of rubbish in an hour.
The large-scale movement of students to small enclaves has resulted in an array of anti-social issues, residents claim, including noise, poorly maintained properties, increased pressure on parking during term-time and litter.
