Nigel Slater's medlar jelly, and roast pheasant with apples and fruit jelly recipes
Posted on April 29, 2024
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Nigel Slater recipesFoodAdd a sumptuous, sweet-sharp gloss to your Sunday roast with medlars – but don't forget to blet them firstI am always looking for something to add interest to the pan juices from the Sunday roast. Something to introduce richness to a simple gravy or a knife-edge to juices that are too fatty or cloying. Other times I want to tease out the sweetness of the meat, to make it all the more sumptuous.
[Read More]Richard Overy | The Guardian
Posted on April 29, 2024
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Adolf Hitler's long, part-autobiographical book, Mein Kampf, is one of the most notorious books of the 20th century. Yet it was not his only book. Three years after Mein Kampf, he dictated a second one, which was never published in his lifetime. The so-called second or secret book was discovered by chance in 1958 among captured German documents in the United States, and published in German and English in 1961.
[Read More]Spy mystery of British sisters who helped Jewish refugees flee the Nazis | Holocaust
Posted on April 29, 2024
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The ObserverHolocaust This article is more than 6 years oldSpy mystery of British sisters who helped Jewish refugees flee the NazisThis article is more than 6 years oldProducers of biopic tell of CIA files on opera-loving secretaries Ida and Louise Cook who repeatedly flew to Germany to rescue refugeesThe extraordinary story of two British sisters who became unlikely heroines in helping Jews to flee Nazi persecution is to be told on the big screen.
[Read More]The love of my life has died. How can I ever be free to live again?
Posted on April 29, 2024
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Ask PhilippaRelationshipsIt’s possible to honour the memory of your lost love, while also finding happiness elsewhereThe question My man died of cancer five years ago. He was 61. We had children and grandchildren. He had been “the man of my life” for the last 35 years. We were in love. Each day, each night, we told each other how we were feeling good together. Our life was just as we wished it could be.
[Read More]Who is the Colombian billionaire taking a high stakes punt on Metro Bank?
Posted on April 29, 2024
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Metro BankProfileJaime Gilinski Bacal is known for snapping up struggling lenders on the cheap and turning around their fortunes
The Colombian banking tycoon Jaime Gilinski Bacal is known for taking a gamble. Now one of the wealthiest people in Latin America, worth a reported $5.3bn (£4.3bn), Bacal built his name snapping up the assets of struggling lenders on the cheap, turning around their fortunes and selling them on for a big profit.
[Read More]William Golding's The Spire
Posted on April 29, 2024
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RereadingWilliam GoldingWilliam Golding's 1964 novel about the building of a spire is a study of bringing the near-impossible into being. His writing is no less miraculousThe Spire was published in 1964. The Dean of a cathedral, Jocelin, wants to add a spire to the building, which has no foundations and is therefore a kind of miracle already. The novel is about the second, highly imperfect miracle, the erection of the spire – and the cost, which is financial, physical and spiritual.
[Read More]1-a-day diet drug promises weight loss | Health & wellbeing
Posted on April 28, 2024
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The ObserverHealth & wellbeing This article is more than 14 years old£1-a-day diet drug promises weight lossThis article is more than 14 years oldBut doctors warn that eating healthily and exercising is the only surefire way to stay slimOver-the-counter diet pills will go on sale in UK chemists for the first time this week amid warnings from experts that the cure for being overweight "will never be found in a wonder drug"
[Read More]Eric Clapton says nerve damage makes playing guitar 'hard work' | Eric Clapton
Posted on April 28, 2024
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‘I should have kicked the bucket a long time ago’ … Eric Clapton in Wales in 2005. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA‘I should have kicked the bucket a long time ago’ … Eric Clapton in Wales in 2005. Photograph: Yui Mok/PAEric Clapton This article is more than 7 years oldEric Clapton says nerve damage makes playing guitar 'hard work'This article is more than 7 years oldClapton cancelled concert dates in 2013 due to back pain that has now led to peripheral neuropathy
[Read More]Former aides warn of running out of time to prevent Trump re-election | US elections 2024
Posted on April 28, 2024
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US elections 2024Former aides warn of ‘running out of time’ to prevent Trump re-election Sarah Matthews, Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah Griffin insist Trump’s behavior would be worse if he wins second term
The re-election of Donald Trump in 2024 could “end American democracy as we know it”, according to three women who worked for him in the White House during his chaotic term in office.
All three gave testimony to the US House committee investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat as well as the 6 January Capitol attack staged by his supporters.
[Read More]Geoffrey Wheatcroft | The Guardian
Posted on April 28, 2024
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The Long Read: Ever since Winston Churchill invented it in 1946, successive prime ministers have discovered that the bond between the US and UK is anything but sacred. So, why does this absurd idea refuse to go away?
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