In the run-up to Christmas, with schools breaking up shortly for a fortnight, the shame of ‘holiday hunger’ and child...
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food Articles
Something has to give
We named the independent inquiry we launched today the Fabian Commission on Food and Poverty in order to broaden the...
The long and the short of food and farming
The challenge for farming often gets defined in the ‘here and now’: the dairy crisis of 2012, the continuing impacts...
Time to step up on stopping diabetes
Yesterday’s shocking news that the rate of prediabetes has trebled in the last eight years, and that a third of us now...
Consumers must come first after horsemeat scandal
This week marks one year on from the discovery of horsemeat sold as beef products in British supermarkets. Despite the...
The right to food
The recent implication by Michael Gove that the increase in food bank use results from the inability of poorer...
Labour, food prices, and the cost of living
In British political history, food has previously played an important role. Clement Attlee's postwar government saw...
Localising school dinners provision
'School should be a place for learning' - perhaps the most obvious sentence anyone has ever started an article with...
Evangelical about free school meals
A few weeks ago, I had a slightly surreal conversation with Boris Johnson in a lift in which he said all children...
Food, farming and the UK in the EU
The UK must be at the heart of the European Union to get the best deal for UK food producers. The food and farming...
In the dragons’ den
I’ve heard some unexpected things at political events over the years but a call for class warfare at a Progress event...
No time for horsing around
Revelations in the last few weeks of horsemeat in ready meals, burgers and school dinners has led many to ask: where...