All comment & opinion articles – Page 502
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Spots, stripes and pocket battleships
After missing out on the PR contract of a lifetime (promoting chocolate Rich Tea biscuits) I finally shook off my sour Royal Wedding mood and got into the spirit of the thing (mostly gin) at an 'exclusive' (which is PR-speak for lightly attended)...
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Comment & OpinionA blind date with the Dolmio puppets
Italy doesn’t do Hairy Bikers - just immaculately groomed Gucci models sipping espresso as their scooters zip from one bunga-bunga party to the next.
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Stick to the British Lion egg standard
Sir, In the letter 'Let's get rid of battery eggs' (The Grocer, 16 April), Alice Clark fails to mention that conventional battery cages are already in the process of being phased out, to be replaced by new more animal welfare-friendly enriched...
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Second Opinion: Finally, a chance to cut red tape
But simplifying rules is better than ‘slash and burn’. The public realises this, says Kevin Hawkins
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Morrisons breaks out the bunting
Morrisons proudly revealed today that the bunting at Downing Street’s party for the Royal Wedding had come from one of its stores.
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Sainsbury's family values
Last week The Grocer revealed Sainsbury’s was leading all other supermarkets in the promotional stakes.
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Not a bad substitute for chocolate
It may have been all that sickly-sweet love in the air, what with the fairytale romance (or the hideously indulgent waste of taxpayers’ money, depending on your politics) set to unfold at Westminster Abbey.
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: Riots aren't surprising. But riots about a Tesco Express in Stokes Croft?
I've predicted the possibility of riots before as ordinary workers are asked to pay the price for the appalling mismanagement of the economy by the banks, the Bank of England, and the government.
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Comment & OpinionAd of the Week: Strongbow’s sofa saga is more graft than craft
Carlsberg’s new campaign positions it as a ‘reward’ rather than the kind of foaming punishment in a glass over-refreshed rugger-buggers sometimes impose on each other, say. But wait! That acrid smell you whiff is stale Strongbow, the…
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Saturday Essay: Let’s celebrate the traditional English apple
Aesthetically pleasing foreign varieties are usurping the English apple – it’s time to fight back, says Professor David Bellamy
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Careers File: When is it time to move on?
I run a smallish food supplier, which I set up about 10 years ago and have made decent headway with. We seem now to have achieved a size whereby middle management are happy to challenge the culture of the business and even tell me what I should or shouldn't do.
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What will the coalition economy look like?
The coalition must examine competition laws if it is serious about giving local economies freedom, says Adam Schoenborn
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on gourmet geezers and gastro gulags
Time was, the closest our prison system came to haute cuisine was the old 'chisel in a cake' brought in by inmates' mums. That's changing. Nowadays contraband more commonly takes the form of heroin, firearms and mobile phones - and that's...
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Second Opinion: UNFAO election is crucial for food
New director-general must have a sustainable vision for the 21st century, says Tim Lang
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Going loco for local
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Tesco. After those disappointing fourth-quarter results, its bank holiday began with the wrong sort of bang when a shiny new Express in Bristol was petrol-bombed by militants “dressed like ninjas”, according to one widely quoted bystander.
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Laughing stockings
It must be the warm weather getting everyone so hot under the collar. In the papers it’s as if the silly season has started a couple of months early, with a bunch of dozy stories surfacing in the past few days that you’d normally expect to see only in high ...
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Candid Clarke, Mk II
In recent weeks Tesco has been playing copycat with Asda over the latter’s price guarantee, with what you might politely call ‘mixed’ results. As well as being an avoidable PR own goal, Double the Difference also exposed Tesco to criticism that it has become uncharacteristically reactive of late.
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Best food forward
Aptly for a government so concerned about waste, the coalition has been doing a bit of recycling over the weekend. It now wants to get rid of ‘best before’ labels, reasoning that people really do chuck away stuff that’s fine to eat because of the date on the wrapper.
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Careers File: Changes to retirement age don't address skills gap with next generation
April is the biggest month in the world of work, being the time when new employment legislation comes into force. And this April there has been no let up in regulation. The biggies for food and drink businesses are the scrapping of the default...