Nutri-Score is a pragmatist’s best friend
It’s the middle of August; peak holiday season, and in the grand tradition of national newspaper columnists I have managed to contrive an...
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nickjhughes
- Feb 13
- 5 min
Labelling landscape continues to confuse
Devising the metrics that underpin an environmental score for food products is a notoriously difficult task, although not nearly as...
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nickjhughes
- Dec 14, 2023
- 3 min
Investment in water can’t run dry forever
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...
10 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Aug 20, 2023
- 3 min
It's time we paid the true price of food
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...
14 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Jun 20, 2023
- 5 min
Comical food policy is no laughing matter
“The UK food system, the largest industry in the country by a country mile, is a puppet of a failing, shallow, ignorant and low...
7 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- May 12, 2023
- 4 min
Theme park junk food does little to amuse
Who is responsible for the UK’s obesity crisis? Is it we as individuals? Or does responsibility ultimately rest with governments and food...
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nickjhughes
- Feb 1, 2023
- 3 min
Bosses should speak truth to power
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...
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nickjhughes
- Oct 21, 2022
- 4 min
Time for businesses to think big
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...
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nickjhughes
- Sep 15, 2022
- 4 min
No time to stall on sustainability
The appointment of a new prime minister – and cabinet – brings a fresh opportunity for organisations to push their own particular agenda....
8 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- May 27, 2022
- 4 min
Vigilance needed to fend off food crime
Next year will mark the tenth anniversary of the ‘horsegate’ scandal in which horsemeat was illegally substituted for beef in a range of...
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nickjhughes
- Apr 30, 2022
- 3 min
Government must see past junk food chicanery
The cost of living crisis is biting and the statistics make for grim reading. Even taking into account measures announced in the...
6 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Dec 15, 2021
- 3 min
Johnson continues to swerve the pig issues
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...
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nickjhughes
- Sep 9, 2021
- 5 min
Will labour be Johnson's undoing?
As parliament resumed this week the prime ministerial in-tray will have been piled unusually high with issues of national importance. Any...
14 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Apr 21, 2021
- 7 min
Get real about the race to net zero
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...
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nickjhughes
- Dec 11, 2020
- 9 min
Brexit: a giant leap into the unknown
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...
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nickjhughes
- Dec 4, 2020
- 5 min
Is blue still the colour of the food industry?
There was a time not so long ago when the food supply chain was largely gilded in Conservative blue. Farmers by and large have...
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nickjhughes
- Aug 6, 2020
- 5 min
Dimbleby keeps us waiting over food system fix
Those hoping for a 10-point plan to fix the food system will have been disappointed by Henry Dimbleby’s much-anticipated food strategy...
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nickjhughes
- Apr 6, 2020
- 3 min
Covid-19: Year dot for CSR
Corporate social responsibility has always been a difficult discipline to assess. Almost every large business will present to the world a...
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nickjhughes
- Mar 6, 2020
- 3 min
The price of ending foreign labour
Some years ago, after graduating from university, I spent several months working in a newly opened branch of Carluccio’s in Tunbridge...
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nickjhughes
- Feb 10, 2020
- 4 min
Unconvincing Villiers leaves more questions than answers
When she took to the stage at this month’s annual Oxford Farming Conference Theresa Villiers had the opportunity to set out a grand...
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nickjhughes
- Aug 30
- 3 min
Nutri-Score is a pragmatist’s best friend
It’s the middle of August; peak holiday season, and in the grand tradition of national newspaper columnists I have managed to contrive an...
3 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Feb 13
- 5 min
Labelling landscape continues to confuse
Devising the metrics that underpin an environmental score for food products is a notoriously difficult task, although not nearly as...
4 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Aug 30
- 3 min
Nutri-Score is a pragmatist’s best friend
It’s the middle of August; peak holiday season, and in the grand tradition of national newspaper columnists I have managed to contrive an...
3 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Feb 13
- 5 min
Labelling landscape continues to confuse
Devising the metrics that underpin an environmental score for food products is a notoriously difficult task, although not nearly as...
4 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Dec 14, 2023
- 3 min
Investment in water can’t run dry forever
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...
10 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Aug 20, 2023
- 3 min
It's time we paid the true price of food
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...
14 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Jun 20, 2023
- 5 min
Comical food policy is no laughing matter
“The UK food system, the largest industry in the country by a country mile, is a puppet of a failing, shallow, ignorant and low...
7 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- May 12, 2023
- 4 min
Theme park junk food does little to amuse
Who is responsible for the UK’s obesity crisis? Is it we as individuals? Or does responsibility ultimately rest with governments and food...
12 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Feb 1, 2023
- 3 min
Bosses should speak truth to power
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...
9 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Oct 21, 2022
- 4 min
Time for businesses to think big
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...
5 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Sep 15, 2022
- 4 min
No time to stall on sustainability
The appointment of a new prime minister – and cabinet – brings a fresh opportunity for organisations to push their own particular agenda....
8 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- May 27, 2022
- 4 min
Vigilance needed to fend off food crime
Next year will mark the tenth anniversary of the ‘horsegate’ scandal in which horsemeat was illegally substituted for beef in a range of...
17 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Apr 30, 2022
- 3 min
Government must see past junk food chicanery
The cost of living crisis is biting and the statistics make for grim reading. Even taking into account measures announced in the...
6 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Dec 15, 2021
- 3 min
Johnson continues to swerve the pig issues
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...
13 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Sep 9, 2021
- 5 min
Will labour be Johnson's undoing?
As parliament resumed this week the prime ministerial in-tray will have been piled unusually high with issues of national importance. Any...
14 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Apr 21, 2021
- 7 min
Get real about the race to net zero
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...
7 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Dec 11, 2020
- 9 min
Brexit: a giant leap into the unknown
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...
11 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Dec 4, 2020
- 5 min
Is blue still the colour of the food industry?
There was a time not so long ago when the food supply chain was largely gilded in Conservative blue. Farmers by and large have...
3 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Aug 6, 2020
- 5 min
Dimbleby keeps us waiting over food system fix
Those hoping for a 10-point plan to fix the food system will have been disappointed by Henry Dimbleby’s much-anticipated food strategy...
11 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Apr 6, 2020
- 3 min
Covid-19: Year dot for CSR
Corporate social responsibility has always been a difficult discipline to assess. Almost every large business will present to the world a...
7 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Mar 6, 2020
- 3 min
The price of ending foreign labour
Some years ago, after graduating from university, I spent several months working in a newly opened branch of Carluccio’s in Tunbridge...
5 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Feb 10, 2020
- 4 min
Unconvincing Villiers leaves more questions than answers
When she took to the stage at this month’s annual Oxford Farming Conference Theresa Villiers had the opportunity to set out a grand...
7 views0 comments
nickjhughes
- Dec 6, 2019
- 4 min
Parties make their New Year's resolutions
‘Tis the season to be jolly: to sing carols around the Christmas tree, eat your bodyweight in mince pies, and … trudge to the polling...
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nickjhughes
- Feb 22, 2019
- 3 min
Why the silence from the high-street health alliance?
Brexit is all-consuming. So say 32 food and drink trade associations which claimed last week their members have neither “the physical...
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