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Booker's £63.4m question Subscription

24 May 2012 | By Beth Phillips

Booker may not be sexy but the UK’s top cash & carry could start generating some serious column inches if it keeps up its current momentum.

Have we reached a historic moment when supermarkets start to shrink? Subscription

19 May 2012 | By Adam Leyland

Ever since supermarkets were first invented, they have grown larger and more all-encompassing.

The illusion of progress Subscription

19 May 2012 | By Kevin Hawkins

American President Calvin Coolidge was once asked how he managed to remain healthy in a job that had killed Woodrow Wilson.

Goliath mistakes from the dismal fizz artists Subscription

19 May 2012 | By Charlie Wright

If the essence of Englishness is ‘Jerusalem’, Belgian lager and tikka masala, no wonder sparkling wine from these shores has a hard time selling itself.

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the saturday essay

Spelman: Rio+20 summit will be vital Subscription

19 May 2012 | By Caroline Spelman

Food security, natural resource scarcity and climate change are among the most pressing issues of our time…

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tales of titania

Titania: Clinton Cards and the Scottish invasion Subscription

19 May 2012 | By Titania Touché

Things in Britain may be looking up. Not for the economy, of course, but there is, at last, the faintest glimmer of enlightenment at the end of a very long tunnel of bad taste.

Commercial suicide and the Jubilee bandwagon Subscription

12 May 2012 | Updated: 13 May 2012 | By Titania Touché

As we gather round the kettle (no water cooler comforts here at P&F), opinion is divided on Pepsi’s decision to put Michael Jackson back on its cans.

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