Nick Hughes       Freelance Writer & Editor

The publication of a plan for transitioning the food system to net-zero is a significant moment for the sector. Not for what the plan...

It’s the middle of August; peak holiday season, and in the grand tradition of national newspaper columnists I have managed to contrive an...

Devising the metrics that underpin an environmental score for food products is a notoriously difficult task, although not nearly as...

As I stare out of my office window (and defer writing this article for the third time this morning) the sun is streaming in through the...

How much do you pay for your morning cup of coffee? Now let me rephrase the question: how much would you be prepared to pay for your...

“The UK food system, the largest industry in the country by a country mile, is a puppet of a failing, shallow, ignorant and low...

Who is responsible for the UK’s obesity crisis? Is it we as individuals? Or does responsibility ultimately rest with governments and food...

In the spirit of this post I will get straight to the point. I have a polite request to make of business leaders in the foodservice...

It’s not often I read a book that stops me dead in my tracks but George Monbiot’s Regenesis proved an exception to the rule. In it, the...

The appointment of a new prime minister – and cabinet – brings a fresh opportunity for organisations to push their own particular agenda....

Next year will mark the tenth anniversary of the ‘horsegate’ scandal in which horsemeat was illegally substituted for beef in a range of...

The cost of living crisis is biting and the statistics make for grim reading. Even taking into account measures announced in the...

At least 16,000 healthy pigs have been culled and incinerated in the UK since the summer due to a shortage of capacity in abattoirs; yet...

As parliament resumed this week the prime ministerial in-tray will have been piled unusually high with issues of national importance. Any...

Has your business set a net zero target for carbon emissions? If the answer is no then there’s every chance you’ll soon be in the...

So here we are: 1,635 days after the vote to leave the European Union and the UK’s future outside the world’s largest single market...

There was a time not so long ago when the food supply chain was largely gilded in Conservative blue. Farmers by and large have...

Those hoping for a 10-point plan to fix the food system will have been disappointed by Henry Dimbleby’s much-anticipated food strategy...

Corporate social responsibility has always been a difficult discipline to assess. Almost every large business will present to the world a...

Some years ago, after graduating from university, I spent several months working in a newly opened branch of Carluccio’s in Tunbridge...