Veganism has continued to grow exponentially in the UK. Is the pandemic a bystander, or has it helped drive the rise of plant-based diets? — Two years ago, the Greggs vegan sausage roll infuriated traditionalists everywhere. As global food brands rushed to release their own vegan products, I questioned whether 2019 would prove to be the ‘Year of the Vegan’ in the UK. …

This article was originally published on 6th August 2017 at Jericho Online. Reproduced here with full permissions. England’s Spice Girls once sang ‘will this déjà vu never end?’, but it is the ‘Ethiopian Spice Girls’ — a five-piece girl band named Yegna — who have again returned to UK headlines…

This article was originally published on 5th February 2019. A follow-up article tracking the growth of veganism and vegan culture in the UK over the last two years will be coming shortly! The word ‘vegan’ was coined in 1944, after members of the Leicester Vegetarian Society became frustrated with the…

This article was originally published on 13th May 2019 at Jericho Online. Reproduced here with full permissions. From the UN in 2017 to the EU in 2018, we have become accustomed to organisations and countries declaring ‘war on plastic waste’. However, less considered is a ‘war over plastic waste’ —…