Thought for food
Common beliefs about the health benefits of many foods are founded on false claims by a rapacious industry says Grant Ennis. In 2014 a hunter left out 40kg of chocolate …
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Getting real on fake meat
A wave of alternatives to meat has swept through the UK. In this article Lynne Davis unpacks the debates around these packaged processed food stuffs, and the nature of the …
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Mum. How are cigarette companies allowed to still exist?
Hilary Sutcliffe explores why processed food firms are free to peddle poison and how mother can actually know best. Rumour has it that the Labour Party is set to take …
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A local lifeline
As developing nations sink in overseas debt, Bruno Bonizzi describes why local currency debt may be part of the solution. After a decade of sustained growth, Ghana defaulted on its …
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Poor diet
Megan Blake explains how rich countries can have hungry households and introduces a means to climb out of food insecurity Eradicating hunger is one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development …
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Why didn’t the balloon go up?
When the US military shot down an unmanned Chinese aircraft many thought the worst. Joshua Brown looks at why things might have even grown better. When a Chinese surveillance balloon …
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Was Truss on the money?
Dirk Ehnts suggests that Liz Truss’s downfall may have not been because she was wrong. Shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said in 2021 that delaying tackling climate breakdown would be at …
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More ore or less waste?
Paul Ekins warns of the need for low-carbon-economy policymakers to consider the full circle. Many of the technologies seen as critical for the shift to low-carbon energy, as well as …
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Education, education and education
James Robson holds up a trio of pledges that a Labour government might consider in any bid to align education with the skills needed for UK prosperity. Sooner or later …
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Can finance save polar bears?
Frederic Hache questions proposals that perpetual growth can be made sustainable by planting trees. In an article published by Le Monde in December, 2023, the President of the French Republic, …
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