Food
Labour ignores reality with its political hunger games
There are few things more frustrating in politics than attempts to shut down a valid debate about a real social problem using the speaker’s personal circumstances. Today’s victim appears to… Continue reading
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Don’t ban Frosties: teach children the life skills they need to make choices
What a very sensible idea from a group of more than 200 MPs in today’s FT: teach children about personal finance. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Education for Young… Continue reading
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Why do-gooding ‘sin taxes’ always stink of politics
Nutella may have been created by Italians, but it is the French who really love it. The hazelnut spread is a fantastically popular accompaniment for everything from bread for breakfast… Continue reading
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Wareing and peace
It’s strange how coy the rich and famous can be. Roger Moore never watches his own films, and celebrity chef Marcus Wareing never eats in his own Berkeley Hotel restaurant.… Continue reading
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Review – John Saturnall’s Feast, by Lawrence Norfolk
Lawrence Norfolk has always liked to centre his novels around a mixture of existing and constructed myth, and then let the action which happens centuries later be informed by or… Continue reading
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The hunger Games
One million children at risk of starvation in Niger; global food inflation last year of approximately 6 per cent; political instability linked to food price rises; drought in the US… Continue reading
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So let’s get this straight…
After today’s VAT changes: a) If you walked into a pasty shop and bought a pasty that has been kept hot in a cabinet (or in foil, or on a… Continue reading
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Choice matters more than tuck shops
Does it matter that academy schools are defying Jamie Oliver’s fatwa against sweets? An organisation called the School Food Trust has found 89 of 100 academies guilty of harbouring tuck… Continue reading
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Science or starvation
Here, for CoffeeHousers, is an extended version of the leader column in this week’s magazine. It takes on the green fundamentalism which stupidly aims to put a stop to genetically… Continue reading
37 CommentsNick Clegg’s Christmas recipe
Our Christmas issue is so packed that, sadly, there wasn’t enough space to include everything that was originally commissioned. Among the ejectees was a series of Christmas recipes and tips… Continue reading
19 CommentsCan the Dutch Government Really Be Abandoning Smokers to Their Fate?
Let us hope they are. A wailing letter to the editors of the Lancet, signed by Stanton Glantz and other anti-tobacco fanatics, complains that the Dutch government "is all but… Continue reading
11 CommentsCan A Cheeseburger Exist Outside A Post-Agrarian Society?
A post arguing that this is a Question To Which the Answer is No has been cropping up on my Facebook feed lately and now I see that Andrew Sullivan… Continue reading
2 CommentsLabour’s inflation pitch
Curiouser and curiouser. We in Coffee House have been saying for some time now that – whatever Mervyn King thinks – Britain has the worst inflation in the Western World… Continue reading
38 CommentsYes, Virginia, the World Gets Better
The year before I was born fewer than one in three countries in the world could be considered properly free. Today, according to Freedom House, nearly one in two can… Continue reading
3 CommentsA Pizza Strategy for Labour?
Hopi Sen argues that Gordon Brown needs to run a Harry Truman-like campaign. That’s probably right. But Labour’s problem is that Brown is in a position that’s more like the… Continue reading
14 CommentsMike Bloomberg Seems to be Inspiring Tory Health Policy. Which is a Problem.
If there’s one thing Team* Spectator agrees upon it is, I think, that Tory health policy is utterly inadequate and desperately confused. One especially problematic promise, however, is the notion… Continue reading
3 CommentsRum, Sodomy and a Radish
Proof that even well-intentioned and useful fads can go too far: the Grow Your Own Vegetables movement has reached a tragi-comic end with the news that Shane MacGowan, the hardest-living… Continue reading
6 CommentsThe 50 Best Foods in the World
As Ezra Klein says it would be remiss not to give this transparently link-whoring Observer list of The 50 Best Foods in the World and Where to Eat Them the… Continue reading
6 CommentsDepartment of Fast Food
Andrew Stuttaford, exiled in New York, thinks the creation – and about time too – of the kebab-flavoured* Pot Noodle demonstrates that there’s hope yet for the Old Country. He… Continue reading
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