Debating Matters national administratorJustine Brian
Justine Brian loves good food and hates food snobbery. She learned to cook at Westminster College and fantasises about giving up the rat race to sell high-class cupcakes. For her, the contemporary debate about food confuses the creative and adventurous impulse to try to make better food with a manipulative attempt to use food as a tool of social engineering in areas as diverse as health, parenting and 'ethical' living. Justine produced and chaired the debate Diet Nation: the obesity debate at the Battle of Ideas 2007.
When not thinking about, reading about or eating food, she administrates the Institute of Ideas & Pfizer's Debating Matters Competition, an innovative and engaging new style of debating competition for sixth form students in the UK.
Recent articles
Selected appearances
- 10 July 2008. Justine was on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour discussing 'frugal food'
- June 2008. Justine was on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show debating cheap food with Prof Tim Lang of City University
Selected articles
- 9 June 2008. In defence of Asda's 2p sausage The Free Society
- March 2008. Defending Delia from the food fanatics spiked review of books
- 8 January 2008. In defence of cheap chicken spiked
- 17 December 2007. Giving the homeless crumbs from the table spiked
