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Food banks

July 2024

  • An artwork by the British artist Corbin Shaw features a table setting including ornate cutlery and a plate with a blue floral rim and the slogan 'there's no food in the house'

    Food bank calls for end to subsidised ‘fine dining at meal deal prices’ for MPs

  • Keir Starmer delivers a speech in London on 6 July

    Brief letters
    A decent and capable prime minister? That’s exciting

  • A volunteer loads up a car at a food bank distribution hub.

    Brief letters
    Families in poverty face a real challenge

  • Illustration showing an ambulance

    14 years of Tory rule – in data
    How 14 years of Tory rule have changed Britain – in charts

June 2024

  • Taylor Swift in a white bra top and bottoms performing on stage

    Taylor Swift donation enables Cardiff food bank to buy lorry full of supplies

  • Illustration of liquid made from graph paper being poured from the box that features the words: ‘chancellor of the exchequer’

    14 years of Tory rule – in data
    The economy: how 14 years of Tory rule have changed Britain – in charts

  • Composite of images showing people in North Cornwall

    Path to power
    From field to fork, disillusioned voters are feeling the pinch in North Cornwall

  • Insaf

    ‘Be determined, persevere, persist’: the people who made Tottenham’s Cook Up – in pictures

  • UK children shorter, fatter and sicker amid poor diet and poverty, report finds

  • Charity to offer books at food banks across the UK

  • The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
    How Britain became a food bank nation

May 2024

  • Michelle Roach bought a used ice-cream van in order to bring cheap, affordable food to Liverpool's struggling communities. The Guardian's Christopher Cherry follows Michelle and the van on its rounds, with the service struggling to meet overwhelming demand as the cost of living crisis deepens.

    8:39

    The woman feeding Liverpool from an ice-cream van – video

  • Martha Gill

    Biohazards, Putin, extremism… we’ll need more than a few tins of beans

    Martha Gill
  • Volunteers gather food into bags

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘It’s not just giving out food parcels’: the volunteers helping families – photo essay

  • A person holds a basket with food items at Peckham Pantry in London.

    Social acceptance of food banks is a mark of Tory failure

  • ‘People haven’t woken up to the scale of this’: Gordon Brown on the UK’s child poverty scandal

  • Charities attack Tesco rules for evening-only collection of unwanted food

March 2024

  • People walk up a road in Godalming, Surrey

    ‘From another galaxy’: Hunt makes few friends in Surrey town with £100k remarks

    In Godalming, chancellor’s words chimed with concerns about housing but fuelled perception of Tories being out of touch
  • Gordon Brown

    Britain seems stuck in a doom loop of poverty. I have a plan to raise billions to address that

    Gordon Brown
    Communities, charities, companies and government could work together to rescue millions of people, says former prime minster Gordon Brown
  • Activists in Berlin, Germany, block a highway to protest against food waste and for agricultural change to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

    Millions go hungry as a billion meals binned every day, says UN report

    UN Food Waste Index report also finds global food wastage is big contributor to climate crisis
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