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Yesterday’s shocking news that the rate of prediabetes has trebled in the last eight years, and that a third of us now have prediabetes and are at high risk of developing full blown Type 2 diabetes, should act as a wake-up call for all of us. There are now 3.8 million...

This week marks one year on from the discovery of horsemeat sold as beef products in British supermarkets. Despite the media storm and public outrage at the scale of the horsemeat adulteration, significant questions remain about how we produce our food and protect...

The recent implication by Michael Gove that the increase in food bank use results from the inability of poorer families to manage their household finances illustrates the persistence of normative views of poverty and social exclusion. It also serves to maintain high...

In British political history, food has previously played an important role. Clement Attlee's postwar government saw the end of rationing as the political domestic issue of the day, and a young minister – Harold Wilson – made his name championing the end of these...