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Food Revolution? Forget it. Jamie Oliver is a class traitor

Jamie Oliver – with his public health campaigns and his east-end-boy-done-good manner – has been dividing opinion in recent weeks. His legions of middle class fans can’t get enough of his “pukka” TV programmes and his attempts to get comprehensive school children eating bulgar wheat rather than burgers for lunch.

But Conservative health secretary Andrew Lansley criticised Oliver and the previous government for “constantly lecturing people and trying to tell them what to do.” Lansley was slated in much of the press, but perhaps he has a point – should the government intervene in people’s eating habits? And does Jamie Oliver’s approach patronise the poor people, ignoring the injustices that lead to bad eating habits?