Month: October 2026

Can crisis be the catalyst we need to fix our food system?

Hundreds of small chopped salad ingredients arranged in a grid on a wooden surface, including vegetables, olives, eggs, and cheese

Over 180 organisations, academics, farmers and community food leaders have written an open letter to Prime Minister Andy Burnham voicing the concern that “the UK is complacent and unprepared for the food emergencies we know are coming”. The letter demands a range of actions from the inclusion of food in the National Risk Register to …

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Master’s, academic publishers, beer, adverts

Wind-bent trees silhouetted along a hedgerow above gorse-covered moorland under a heavy, overcast sky

I submitted my dissertation a day early. No late nights before the deadline, no last-minute rush, no panic. I used to pride myself on quoting Douglas Adams, with his deadlines making a whooshing sound as they fly by, but in the end I was relaxed and ahead of time. So uncool. My past self doesn’t …

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A view down to the south coast of Devon from Brentor on the edge of Dartmoor National Park. Plymouth Sound on the horizon gleams in the sun, while the sun lights up fields with a few livestock dotted around trees and hedgerows dividing the fields. A road curves up past the fields.Jars of apple jelly, golden in colour, lit by sunlight from behind. The jelly is flecked with mint.A dairy cow grazes in a field as the sun sets in the background.A line of trees seen in silhouette on a grey cloudy day, the hills of Dartmoor in the background.Devil's fingers fungus (Clathrus archeri) in grassland in Dartmoor, Devon. The grass is speckled with dew.

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