War in Ukraine has shown that over-extended supply chains constitute a vulnerability. Food security now ranks as high a priority as energy security.
Empty veg aisles are largely due to poor foreign harvests, not Brexit. But they’ve drawn attention to the plight of British farmers and the risk of future shortages caused by border food checks.
Iain Martin Reaction editor talks to Javier Blas, one of the world’s best-known journalists covering energy, commodities and trading houses and chief energy correspondent at Bloomberg News.
Global gas and grain shortages are a classic example of chaos theory in action: in a globalised world, a crisis in one country feeds into consequences for us all.
Supermarkets have urged the government to take urgent action to avoid empty shelves this summer.
To date, Britain’s fight against Covid-19 has largely been fought on two fronts: The Health of The Nation and The Wealth of The Nation. But now there’s a
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