Born from a frustration with today’s sound-bite driven “rolling” news, Pocket Issue titles pull together the background to some of the biggest challenges facing our world – delivering the facts in an independent and quick-to-digest format.

Designed for our time-pressed lives, these short and pithy handbooks quickly brief you with enough facts to join the debate.

Is Organic food really better for us? Do we care about Fairtrade or food miles? Should we buy locally or from the supermarket?

Eating has been described as the “most political act we do on a daily basis”, with our choices affecting our health, landscape, climate and economy.

Food what are we really eating? Lifts the lid on food production and the dizzying array of food choices we face each time we shop. Read it and learn how to shop with confidence.

‘A brilliant wheeze: The essence of the debate in a very approachable format’
Harriet Lane, The Observer

‘Exactly what any busy person needs – the facts at your fingertips! Never get caught out again when a conversation starts on the big issues of our time’
Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 and Panorama

‘For everyone who longs to be well informed but lacks the time (or attention span).’
Alex Clark, The Observer

Prep yourself by keeping the one on global warming in the downstairs loo…’
Mary Killen, The Spectator

Precisely what’s needed…’
Hephzibah Anderson, The Daily Mail