The government, we were told this week, would quote like you to buy some tins. Britons are set to be encouraged to keep bottled water and non-perishable food at home under a new national resilience campaign designed to prepare households for disruption caused by everything from extreme weather to cyber attacks.
It’s an invitation to consider a question most of us haven’t thought about since the pandemic: if the shops shut, the lights went out and the tap stopped running, what exactly would you eat?
