All articles by Tim Lang – Page 5

  • TIM-LANG
    Comment & Opinion

    Second opinion: If only we were all Olympians...

    2008-08-23T00:00:00Z

    The irony of the Olympics is that it encourages people to eat, drink, and put on weight as they watch and admire the superfit on telly. It’s August. It’s holiday time. It’s that once-every-four-years jamboree when everyone holidaying in rainy Britain...

  • TIM-LANG
    Comment & Opinion

    Second Opinion: Don't succumb to false optimism

    2008-07-26T00:00:00Z

    There’s a lot to be said for optimism – but let’s not get carried away by jumping to conclusions in the wake of last week’s fall in oil prices. Many breathed a sigh of relief last week as oil prices fell from the $143 peak. Retailers could at last...

  • Comment & Opinion

    Time to wake up to food security

    2008-01-14T00:00:00Z

    Rising fuel and crop prices and growing global competition for food mean we should take British farming far more seriously Oil breached the symbolic $100 a barrel mark last week. OK, it was the action of a solitary small trader, making...

  • News

    Supermarkets are popular! Shock!

    2007-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Well, the supermarkets can relax. A poll for BBC Radio's Today programme says the public loves them. But is it as simple as that? The poll for Today will have cheered supermarkets. For all the publicity accorded to critics of big...

  • News

    The new order is values-for-money

    2007-01-27T00:00:00Z

    Listening to Sir Terry Leahy's speech last week on reducing carbon emissions, I pinched myself. A few years ago industry leaders ignored, dismissed or downplayed the urgency of the environmental case. Others just saw an opportunity to flog a few...

  • Comment & Opinion

    We're all gonna get reconnected

    2006-12-09T00:00:00Z

    Cricketing jokes were in the air at Lord’s last week when ministers Miliband, Flint and Dandha launched the Government’s plans for 2007-08 to be Year of Farming and Food in Schools (YFFS). Fronted by Sir Don Curry and the brainchild of the…

  • News

    Conference acts to counteract obesity

    2006-11-18T00:00:00Z

    This week, ministers from 53 countries met at a conference in Istanbul to sign a European Char­ter on Counter­acting Obesity. Are boardrooms quaking in their boots? I doubt it. But it's the latest sign that politicians realise obesity is to...