Sir WarGit, a Tom Nook subsidiary

I had three wonderful history teachers at school, but most of my post-school experience of history has involved un-learning a lot of the rubbish that was in the approved textbooks about stuff like the First World War and the communist bloc.

This (with, to be honest, a certain amount of light tweakage with regard to the ragu) has been my go-to offering for the extended family gathering on Boxing Day for the past three years and it's enough of a highlight that I get messages ahead of time seeking assurance that I'll be serving it.

Lasagne of Love This is what I make for my children’s birthday celebrations, for farewell suppers to send them off before they go away, and for the dinners to welcome them back when they come home again. It’s our fam...

It’s a special day in Casa Lawson, which calls for a special #RecipeOfTheDay here: my Lasagne of Love! www.nigella.com/recipes/lasa...

actively running the hospitality sector into the grave and that they've put London on a slow bleed-out too. And that the higher ups are basically oblivious because none of them have any experience of trying to keep the show on the road in that way. And this is a very left-wing chap! [3/3]

interview with the legendary Irish chef Richard Corrigan and he was saying he's always been Labour since he moved to England in the 1980s, but that the current government has been so awful for business beyond his imaginings that his attitude is currently pretty much Never Again. The they're [2/?]

I think an underrated issue here is the fact that the government is overwhelmingly made up of "third sector" people who genuinely haven't a clue about how the private sector works and don't want to know. I keep wanging on about this on Twitter, but a month or do back I was listening to an [1/?]

I'll be honest, I've been wondering why this hasn't come up more. I remember it being reported in the Guardian and I'm not sure, perhaps it was disproved, but it always seemed to me to be rather more serious in terms of voiding any "youthful high jinks" defence.

Jamie-Lee Curtis be like:

Found some chicken liver in the freezer that technically went off last December.

Buxton's great. Very underrated.

I thought I was English when I was eight & didnt know it was in question in 1982. I heard about the rejectionist NF case when I was ten in 1984 - but heard many people rejected it. (We had the Daily Mail in our house: the sports pages were vocal about this after the Barnes wonder goal in Rio)

Hearing about John Healey being briefed about the Afghan fiasco and the cover-up in opposition and then the rest of the new Cabinet being told upon taking office and it's poignantly like Harry Truman being told America had The Bomb, but incredibly shit.

The fiscal problem for Labour is Giles is right. The political problem for Labour (& also for whoever succeeds Labour, any time in the next decade or so) is not enough people know or believe Giles is right, there are zero votes in telling ppl Giles is right and many votes on offer from Giles denial

Soon there'll be more unbroadcastable MasterChef shows than missing episodes of Dr Who.

Back on Twitter! So long, suckers!

Amol Rajan's agent right now:

And they mustn't use it as an excuse to bugger around with the format.

Anyway, assuming both John and Greggggggg are kaput, my favoured replacement (I think) would be Rob Owen Brown and Jimi Famurewa. Jimi because I like him and he needs the work and R O B because he'd bring the hearty rough diamond dynamic (but Northern) while also being able to cook.

Hell of a juxtaposition

I'm open to the idea this is justified, but I'm afraid I'm not sure I'm willing to accept it at face value without being told what it is that he's supposed to have said.

Ok, so now Torode has been sacked for a seven-year-old comment he still denies happened and which we're apparently not allowed to know what it was supposed to be. It may be completely justified, but I want to have the information to draw my own conclusion on this.

There's also - again, possibly an exclusively British context - a cohort of younger left-wingers who absolutely hate the housing status quo but are also wedded to the idea that easy home ownership is a machine for mass producing centre-right voters.

In a British context - and we have rather different mores so this may be misleading - people tend to get angry because a) muh environment and b) muh climate change but also perhaps mostly c) it will involve people making money building and providing stuff.

New Pulp Fiction reboot seems a bit ropey.

"offset lithograph on Japon"

We still haven't proven that the tree wasn't trying to nonce them up and they acted in self-defence.

Just realised I'm signed up for an auction tomorrow and I haven't the faintest idea what I was thinking of bidding on. Which is probably an indication that I should simply ignore it and not bother. And yet.

Anyway, yes, in other news it is possible that a second bottle of Pedro Ximinez sherry has been bought.

*that sort of thing = nostril flare and looks like he might be a bit whiffy