Is all this Anglo-Irish friendship getting out of hand? Last Saturday the Daily Telegraph, that stern bastion of all things British and the scourge of the EU, reported on a visit to Brussels by the president of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales, Ben Gill. It solemnly recorded his comments "after meetings in Brussels with Britain's EU commissioners Chris Patten and David Byrne". Surely we should be told what dastardly Euro plot is afoot here?