The Hand Mirror

Thanks Jessie Anne for this contribution.  Content warning: involves discussion of eating disorders. I have the pleasure of knowing...

Just this: That is just how I look after I've been in the garden. Really.

I first learned about Living Below the Line at the Wellington Candidates Meeting - it was not auspicious introduction. James Shaw mention...

Many thanks to Nikki for the alert: Kia ora koutou, EDEN (Eating Difficulties Education Network) is seeking several new fabulous people...

stratos has finally become available on freeview, and i'm loving it. not only the access to al-jazeera programmes, but the documentarie...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about food and capitalism and one of the things I said was: There have been changes in food over the last 50 ...

I've written a lot about the politics of the way food is discussed, but very little about the politics of food. I think to understand ...

I realised that I hadn't explained myself very well in my Body Shop thread. Or rather I'd paraphrased an argument without actually m...

This post of mine received a massive response. I shouldn't have been surprised about that - over at my blog I had many 101 posts on fo...

Maia's post below has a go at both my food blog post "Not Fit to Eat" and the Child Poverty Action Group's Facebook page...

If you're anything like me you would have had lots of friends liking Child Poverty Action Group recently. I was all prepared to join in...

This week I have felt the irritation at International No Diet Day rise slowly (mostly fueled by the facebook group), and I wanted to write a...

Many thanks to Gina for this guest post, sorry it didn't go up yesterday, that was my fault. In the UK Weightwatchers advertises under t...

Facebook ad spotted this evening: Sorry if you can't read it, here's the text "Know a girlfriend at work who drinks too many su...

The Victoria University staff club is strange in many ways. It is tucked away in the library, undergrads aren't supposed to go there, a...

The Suit loves to listen to newstalk ZB during his morning commute. I'm sure part of the reason is to watch my blood pressure steadily r...

The Guardian, in an article about food wastage , writes: There are nearly a billion malnourished people in the world, but all of them could ...