Tesco — in Ireland and China: Food for thought at Christmas

If there’s one measure of social injustice in Ireland that, for a decade, has remained stubbornly resistant to change, it’s the now annual count of families judged to be living in food poverty, which is defined as the inability to afford or have access to an adequate and nutritious diet.

In some years, it’s 11%, in others it falls unspectacularly to 10%. “It would be nice”, an American writer has noted, “if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.”