Jack Monroe
‘I’ve heard it all: she’s a fraud, a liar, a thief’: Jack Monroe on alcohol, addiction and answering her critics
She’s the anti-poverty campaigner and food writer who shot to fame by teaching us how to make the most of our pennies. But behind the scenes her world was unravelling
Simon Hattenstone
07, Jan, 2023 @7:00 AM
Peanut butter pasta dish among Nigella Lawson’s £1.25-a-portion budget recipes
Budget dishes created by celebrity cook include peanut butter pasta and feta, black bean and clementine couscous
Sarah Butler
26, Oct, 2022 @5:00 AM
‘I tweeted and life went nuts’: OFM Awards 2022 Food Hero – Jack Monroe
The campaigner whose work on explaining the cost of living crisis helped win the votes of OFM readers recalls her hectic year
Interview by Killian Fox
16, Oct, 2022 @4:00 PM
Food bank demand for items to eat cold ‘mind blowing’, says Jack Monroe
Anti-poverty campaigner says many people cannot afford to turn on the hob because of high energy bills
Kalyeena Makortoff
26, May, 2022 @9:30 AM
Jack Monroe to sue MP after he says ‘she makes fortune from the poor’
Food writer and activist, who won a libel suit against the Daily Mail’s Katie Hopkins, takes action against Tory Lee Anderson
Mark Townsend Home affairs editor
15, May, 2022 @8:00 AM
Cost of living crisis could be fatal for some UK children, Jack Monroe tells MPs
Food campaigner calls for social security benefits to be uprated in line with inflation as situation is ‘untenable’ for those in poverty
Patrick Butler Social policy editor
09, Mar, 2022 @1:14 PM
‘Thanks to everyone at Asda’: success for anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe
Activist cries in relief as she commends supermarket for lowering prices amid cost-of-living crisis
Nadeem Badshah
12, Feb, 2022 @9:28 PM
Asda makes cheapest food pledge after pressure from Jack Monroe
Anti-poverty campaigner says low-income shoppers could not always find its lowest price ranges
Hilary Osborne
07, Feb, 2022 @5:37 PM
Cost-of-living crisis: Jack Monroe hails ONS update of inflation calculations
Move by government statisticians follows analysis by UK poverty activist of impact on poorest families
Larry Elliott Economics editor
26, Jan, 2022 @7:23 PM
Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for ‘Vimes Boots’ poverty index
Campaigner has used the idea drawn from Discworld novels to register the disproportionate effect price rises have on the lower paid
Alison Flood
26, Jan, 2022 @3:27 PM
Jack Monroe: 'My back-up plan is to go back to working at the supermarket'
The cook and campaigner talks about growing up in a house full of foster children, her large appetite, and why she doesn’t take her career for granted
John Hind
16, May, 2020 @1:00 PM
Jack Monroe: ‘I’m still haunted by the fear of being hungry’
The food writer and activist, 31, tells Megan Nolan about internet insults, living in a shoebox, teaching at Sunday school and heckling Ed Miliband
Megan Nolan
15, Jun, 2019 @1:00 PM
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