EatingOnPurpose
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Dr Marsha Smith @CBiS_CovUni Interests: #publicrestaurants #canteens #commensality #surplus #socialeating & ‘more than food’ approaches
Nottingham, England
Joined November 2011
I am withdrawing from X in 2025 and can be contacted through LinkedIn and my email, which is marsha.smith@coventry.ac.uk
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When I was a socialist in the USA, everyone was in discreet isolated book-clubs with revolutionary names, devoid of praxis. Most claimed grand plans to create a new world, but did little more than argue with other socialists about which theory they preferred. When I came to
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Superb post on how to actually help towns (without having to believe anything outlandish about economic geography).
Concluding my substack year with a longer (free to read) post sketching a viable future for towns, particularly those outside the London commuter belt. I hope you enjoy it, and I wish you all a very happy Christmas. https://t.co/tQpbNoEoQG
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It’s time for the government and local councils to do the following: 🚜 Schools & hospitals to be supplied by local farms providing fresh food rather than contracts going to corporations (who have no link to local communities) and who supply ultra processed food. 🚜 £2.4
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It took the last government about five minutes to legislate to stop foreigners buying a national newspaper. How long will it take for this government to close a loophole that allows a foreigner to influence the next UK election by sloshing millions the way of one party?
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For shame…
Just published in the LJIL: 'Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field' by Elai Rettig, Shani Friedman and Benny Spanier. Click below to read it now! https://t.co/ZgoNoDWhO5
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Subsidised community restaurants could help tackle the UK’s broken food system – here’s how https://t.co/kW5Tx8F32V via @ConversationUK
theconversation.com
Establishing a nationwide system of community restaurants could help tackle the current food and farming crisis.
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BREAKING 🚨🚨: New footage has emerged from the Battle of The Somme showing Lee Anderson MP providing brave soldiers with 30p meals.
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🎄Delighted to be in Civil Eats’ Holiday Gift Guide! ‘Barnett’s detailed storytelling makes food waste fascinating … From medieval England to Brexit and the pandemic, Barnett expertly rolls out the dough of U.K. history’ ➡️ https://t.co/86f8Q5xIh5 🎅
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Jokes aside, sitting around a table for a #FamilyDinner is key to: ❤️ foster connection 🍏 encourage healthier eating habits 🤝 model positive behaviours 🧘🏽♀️ making time for wellbeing through connection
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The #SumacCentre provides space to many autonomous projects (incl us). Notts Dining Co-op is a food project providing free/cheap meals to the Nottingham community on 1st & 3rd Tuesdays monthly #xposted from https://t.co/r9MoDXpLmn
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Hey @BBCNews, just as you always refer to Hamas being designated a terrorist organisation in UK, please now always refer to Netanyahu being wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the ICC, the world’s top criminal court
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'A vast complex of derelict greenhouses have been brought back into use by a social food enterprise' Read the full article about us 👇 https://t.co/enX8sue4Ai
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Planting has begun at the former Norton Nurseries in a bid to boost homegrown fruit and veg supplies.
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Clive is bang on. This is very basic stuff Labour are getting so completely wrong. People who are struggling are not benefiting from hawks like Blackrock being given partnerships. Not only are they not benefiting - they're a huge part of the reason that inequality is so huge.
This post is problematic for a number of reasons. A thread…🧵 1. For those attempting to make sense of Trump’s victory and the rise of the far-right across Europe - look no further than the PMs statement below. Whether you like it or not, the far-right has a set of common
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This post is problematic for a number of reasons. A thread…🧵 1. For those attempting to make sense of Trump’s victory and the rise of the far-right across Europe - look no further than the PMs statement below. Whether you like it or not, the far-right has a set of common
I'm determined to deliver growth, create wealth and put more money in people’s pockets. This can only be achieved by working in partnership with leading businesses, like @BlackRock, to capitalise on the UK’s position as a world leading hub for investment.
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The Anglo world has lived through decades of prices going up and salaries staying low (unless you’re a CEO), while their supposedly “left” or “labour” alternatives have abandoned the working/middle classes in favour of austerity to gain the favour big campaign-contributing
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The Labour Party just got a 4.5 year warning of what awaits them if they can’t make enough of an impact on people’s lives to build a genuinely enthusiastic coalition of support.
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“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” ― David Graeber
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Everything the Royal Family has was stolen. Every single thing.
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