Jim Power: Food inflation is here to stay and big issues can no longer be ignored

Food discounters cannot be allowed run our food production into the ground, and the possibility of a ban on below-cost selling to protect food security will have to be debated

There are growing indications that we are set to see a significant rise in food prices over the coming months.

The totally unacceptable, savage, and horrific Russian invasion of Ukraine has thrown away any notion that normality will return to our lives in 2022. 

It is impossible to be even remotely confident about how long this war will last or what Russia's ultimate aims really are, but we can be pretty sure the economic impact will be significant.