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The future of breaking bread

3 June 2020 / 355

Charlie Clutterbuck continues the joint Culture Matters/Morning Star series on the future of cultural activities after the Covid-19 crisis, looking at what will we have on our... Continue reading

Charlie Clutterbuck

Eating & Drinking

Big Beer and Big Capital – What is to be done?

31 August 2019 / 364

Keith Flett discusses the challenge of Big Beer and Big Capital in 2019/20. What is to be done to resist and oppose them? Beer writer Roger Protz... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Eating & Drinking

Beer for the many in 2019

30 January 2019 / 363

Keith Flett surveys the beery landscape of 2019, and considers what a Labour Government could do about Big Beer You don’t need a crystal ball to know... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Eating & Drinking

Healthy drinking behaviour vs. neoliberal capitalism

8 November 2018 / 404

Phil Mellows reviews the arguments around harm reduction for drinkers; the current dire situation under neoliberal capitalism in terms of harm done by alcohol to the poorest... Continue reading

Phil Mellows

Eating & Drinking

A drinking culture for the many, not the few: the importance of beer and pubs

1 September 2018 / 345

Keith Flett offers some ideas on how a socialist Labour government could improve our drinking culture. In the stimulating essay on Culture for the Many, not the Few:... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Eating & Drinking

Marx, Engels and beer

21 April 2018 / 353

Keith Flett considers the various references to the role beer played in the lives of Marx and Engels. There have been many and varied attempts over the... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Eating & Drinking

The Moral Economy of the Price of a Pint: For the Many, not the Few?

2 October 2017 / 316

Keith Flett outlines how market capitalism undermined the principle of a fair price for a pint of beer. The price of a pint of beer, or perhaps... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Eating & Drinking

Fast Food Fury: time to overhaul our takeaway culture

31 August 2017 / 441

Sarah Alderton gives a clear and detailed account of how the profit motive affects our culture of eating and drinking. Fat, salt and sugar are used to make... Continue reading

Sarah Alderton

Beers and photo both courtesy of Cloudwater brewery

Eating & Drinking

‘London Murky’, Mrs. T., and the politics of the haze craze

29 July 2017 / 494

Keith Flett gets the round in again, tracing the political impact of Mrs. T on bright fined beer with his usal wit and clarity (geddit?). It’s not... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Division of Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health

Eating & Drinking

A Culture of Overconsumption: Portion Control

12 December 2016 / 411

It seems apt, in the midst of the festive season – a holiday typified by consumption to excess of all sorts of goods, after all – to... Continue reading

Emma Boyland

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