Vittles 6.13 - Nationalised Food

The Stolovaya Revival, by Lisa Haseldine

“Nationalise Greggs”. “Nationalise Wetherspoons”. There was a brief time when these mantras were used by the Twitter left to persuade John McDonnell to propose nationalising anything and everything. It was no mistake that they were the first choices to become Britain’s version of the Soviet stolovayas — they are, after all, already the nation’s canteens…