We were at the dark heart of what Oliver was later to call "the locust years" (he loved a good epigram) when the forestry sector was trashing native woodland, and the subtext of the conference was a subtly orchestrated counter-attack by British ecologists, a bid to rehabilitate the national tree.
If it's the latter, the intolerant minority are trashing any possibility of a grown-up debate.
With the Labour leadership candidates trashing all that was good about Ed Miliband and talking of Blairism, and the Lib Dems not much better, there is a gaping hole in this country for a strong social democratic political party not afraid of the predominant rightwing press and able to promote many of the good things which worked when left-of-centre politics held power.
He was extremely effectively in highlighting both the extremism and incoherence of Ryan's ideology, and his forcing Ryan to admit that he sought stimulus money, after trashing the stimulus bill as corrupt, was lethal.
Today's chaos is trashing human rights and torching values that many, including this newspaper, look to America to defend.
Back in 2004 and 2005 he had a lot of company, as Democrats—especially the bloggy variety traded theories that Republicans were hacking electronic voting machines, trashing mail-in ballots (shades of George Galloway) and purging African-Americans from the rolls.
She even commissioned a report on globalisation and food security from José Bové, an anti-globalisation campaigner once jailed for trashing a McDonald 'srestaurant.The one element that unites this improbable collection of bedfellows is hostility to Mr Sarkozy.
Even as they were trumpeting the things in public, they were trashing them in private, often in scatological terms.The "global settlement" between America's securities regulators and ten investment banks unveiled in Washington on April 28th is supposed to draw a line under this tawdry chapter in Wall Street history (see article).
George Bush's failure to hold his cronies to account for trashing his country's reputation will haunt American foreign policy for years to come.
When he announced the shutdown, Mr Joyce accused the unions of "trashing our strategy and our brand".
If it becomes clear that Mr Putin's desire to bring strong government to his people means trashing their rights, then Russia's expulsion from the Council of Europe is inevitable.
