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Dish of the Day: Street food - what is it really?
Street food was accessible, affordable and part ...
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Dish of the Day: The Reluctant Vegetarian's Super Green Pesto Salad with Sticky Shallots
At the first hint of spring I couldn't help but ...
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Interview with Justin Clarke: His evolution from Ghetto to Ghetts
There’s no introduction needed, Justin Clarke ...
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Barking Blondes: Who trained your dog?
We have never given birth but we reckon books on child rearing must suffer the same wrath as those on dog training – different trends and styles are celebrated and then trashed.
By Joanne Good and Anna Webb | The Dog Blog | Sunday, 30 March 2014 at 12:00 am
In Praise of John Campbell, part II
One of the loveliest things about John Campbell’s style as a biographer is his use of footnotes. I have only dipped into his biography of Roy Jenkins (yesterday I got as far as the back cover), but immediately found this gem, on page 740. It is in the last chapter, about The Great Pooh-Bah’s* afterlife, [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 29 March 2014 at 6:24 pm
Dish of the Day: Street food – what is it really?
Street food was accessible, affordable and part of a great culture. But something’s gone wrong.
By Dan Doherty | Dish of the Day | Saturday, 29 March 2014 at 4:57 pm
On the red carpet, finally, something new, courtesy of Nicolas Ghesquiere at Louis Vuitton
I’m not overwhelmingly interested in celebrity dressing. Is anyone, really? The rounds of premieres, awards-shows and television appearances are relentless – every country has its own launch for a film, a television programme, a magazine, a cereal. And every launch has an outfit. Bar a few celebrities with emblematic style (Kate Moss) or hefty endorsement deals (Jennifer Lawrence in Dior, obviously), what they wear is mostly forgettable. Just like so much of fashion today is forgettable. There’s a surfeit of stuff. Most of it is anodyne, rehashed, dull and unnecessary. Why would I be interested in that?
By Alex Fury | Fashion, Fashion Sense | Saturday, 29 March 2014 at 4:10 pm
In praise of John Campbell
I was surprised, on turning over my copy of John Campbell’s authorised biography of Roy Jenkins, to discover my name on the back. The first quotation of “praise for The Iron Lady“, Campbell’s previous work, is:
“Anyone who wants to know what really happened between 1979 and 1990 should read this book.” John Rentoul, Daily Telegraph.
I remember [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 28 March 2014 at 9:23 pm
Friday Book Design Blog: Verso Radical Thinkers
How to market ‘theory’ – that strange monstrous genre of quasi-philosophical, quasi-social-scientific, quasi-lit-critical writing that crawled from the continent in the second half of the last century? Verso know how to do it. Their list ‘Radical Thinkers’ is chock full of heavyweight names, from Adorno to Foucault to Žižek to… well, you’d have to say there [...]
By Jonathan Gibbs | Arts | Friday, 28 March 2014 at 1:01 pm
What “everyone knows” is wrong: the Budget was popular with young people
Everyone knows that George Osborne designed the Budget to help repulse the UKIP threat to older once-Tory voters, especially working-class ones. What is more, it succeeded. Recent polls by ComRes, YouGov and Populus have seen Labour’s lead cut.
All hail the political genius of the Chancellor.
Except that it is not so.
The brilliant Leo Barasi points out [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 28 March 2014 at 12:17 pm
Is Labour set to abolish fees and introduce a graduate tax?
I wonder if this, asked by George Eaton of the New Statesman two days ago, will turn out to be a Question To Which The Answer Is No.
There was a reason why Gordon Brown and then Nick Clegg failed to come up with a workable plan for a graduate tax: it is a bad idea.
But [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 27 March 2014 at 9:56 pm
Ibet: Stats Point To A Lay Of Arsenal As Manchester City Come To Town
Arsenal put in a storming end to last season to secure Champions League football but this time around they are losing momentum at just the wrong time.
By Gareth Purnell | Football, Notebook, Sport | Thursday, 27 March 2014 at 4:55 pm
Dish of the Day: The Reluctant Vegetarian’s Super Green Pesto Salad with Sticky Shallots
At the first hint of spring I couldn’t help but whip up something fresh, crisp and garlicky. Sometimes I just crave a serious amount of garlic and making up a homemade pesto is one way of satisfying that.
By Anna Barnett | Dish of the Day | Thursday, 27 March 2014 at 4:38 pm
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