Do we really need to be prepping for disaster?

我们真的需要为灾难做准备吗?

Today in Focus

2026-10-28

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Food security expert Prof Tim Lang and prepper and YouTube influencer Ana talk about the government’s new campaign encouraging the public to store three days’ worth of basic supplies. Send your comments and questions to tif.questions@theguardian.com. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, should we all be preppers now?

  • Hi, I'm Jonathan Fields from Good Life Project in paid partnership with Rinse.

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  • OK, so there are four of us and a dog.

  • Me, my husband and my two teenage kids.

  • If anything happened, these are the people I would need to feed.

  • I'm at home, precariously balancing my laptop on the edge of my kitchen units to try to show Anna,

  • who is a popular YouTube prepper,

  • how I intend to ensure that my family survives whatever emergency is coming over the horizon.

  • OK, well, let's have a look at what we've got.