The FT’s Richard Tomkins likes to take a controversial stand. This week he attacks Jamie Oliver and the accompanying brouhaha about school meals. Tomkins has laid into the organic food movement before now and likes to cultivate an image of cynical superiority to what goes on around him.
Today he dismisses that calorie intake matters and […]

The name Artie Shaw probably only means something if you were born before World War II. At one point the band leader was so big, he could turn down Frank Sinatra with the words “I don’t really like boy singers.” He was one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, but aged 44 at […]

Continuing the food theme, Jamie Oliver’s intrusion into the school meals industry can do nothing but harm in the short term for the reputation of the Compass Group, which owns school meals provider Scolarest, and, further up the commercial food chain, Burger King. Oliver attacked the firm in his Channel 4 documentary Jamie’s Dinners Wednesday […]