Food

News

Junk food in schools another symptom of a sick system

Unhealthy food is much easier to access than healthy food
24 August 2026
Extreme weather is having a disastrous effect on food production (Photo: WikipediaCommons)
Environment

Food prices are soaring amid war and climate breakdown

Prices are at a three year high as Britain enters its fifth heatwave
13 August 2026
Food bank table with food on it
News

‘Silent emergency’ as millions go hungry in Keir Starmer’s Britain

12 percent of households are food insecure
23 March 2026
A supermarket aisle packed with processed foods, including crisps and breakfast cereals
News

Ultra processed food is killing us, says top medical journal

New report in The Lancet medical journal this week damns ultra processed foods and the governments that allow them
21 November 2025
The politics of obesity is a politics of the interplay between capitalism, fashion, the internet and the body
Letters

Letters: Capitalism shapes everything­—why ‘fat’ is a socialist issue

'I am not ashamed of calling myself fat'
12 August 2025
School children
Letters

Letters: Eat, drink and be merry— but feel guilty afterwards

Christmas is over now
06 January 2025
JCB
News

Farmers’ protest: ‘We probably are all millionaires’

Some farmer claim new tax will destroy British farming
19 November 2024
Ozempic at a pharmacists
In Depth

Capitalism, fat and our failed food system

Unhealthy relationships to food are a societal issue
20 October 2024
Food bank donations sitting outside a food bank
Labour

Labour won’t address the food bank crisis

Labour refuses to uphold its manifesto promise
10 October 2024
Group of workers at Bakkover with red Unite Union flags
News

Food worker strikes bite back at bosses

Workers fight fire and rehire practices
01 October 2024
Journalist Sarah Wilkinson (centre) recently faced charges
Letters

Letters: ‘The more you try to silence us, the louder we will be’

The Palestine movement continues to be silenced
24 September 2024
Letters

Letters: Step up action to halt Israel’s Gaza settlers

Our readers write on Israel's far right, the normalisation of foodbanks and more
20 May 2024
Reviews & Culture

My World Cafe by David Wilson review: a political recipe book with a difference

How the West stole the tomato
30 October 2023
News

Food banks run out as poverty rockets

Two new surveys on poverty
28 September 2023
Cavendish bananas
Comment

Will we eat bananas in a socialist society?

Socialism is more than bananas
26 September 2023
In Depth

How rice crisis will spread hunger worldwide

A ban on rice exports is blow
19 August 2023
International

Kenyan protesters face ‘extreme violence’ from the police

Kenyan activist speaks out
26 July 2023
Ukraine war Russia food wheat
News

War between Russia and Ukraine feeds new grain price crisis

Conflict causes more misery
25 July 2023
Lab grown meat
Comment

Why lab-grown meat isn’t a solution to the climate crisis

Food productions must sustainably change
17 July 2023
News

Reject bad pay deals after new inflation figures

Reject below inflation deals
21 June 2023
The Troublemaker

The Met police is secretly monitoring 13 year olds

The Troublemaker looks at the week's news
12 June 2023
News

‘No to half-baked deals,’ say Liverpool bakery strikers

Allied Bakeries workers in Bfawu rejected a 10 percent pay offer over two years
31 May 2023
Supermarket
News

Grocery bills are over £800 more than a year ago

The new inflation figures are out
24 May 2023
NEU union members on strike earlier in May
News

New strike figures show workers are fighting back

Workers struck 556,000 days in March alone
18 May 2023