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Biden admin upended by chaotic weekend

Sep 30, 2024 | thespectator.com | Juan P. Villasmil |Orlando Bird |Jonathan Spyer |Charles Lipson

The Biden administration is struggling to find its footing amid a series of unfortunate events that are testing the oft-vacationing president and his vice president, who is currently auditioning for the top spot in American politics. Hurricane Helene decimated parts of North Carolina, leaving millions of Americans without power, at least thirty dead and many more missing.
Rescue the Republic didn’t meet expectations

Sep 30, 2024 | thespectator.com | Juan P. Villasmil |Orlando Bird |Matthew Parris |Ben Domenech

This Sunday, steps away from the Washington Monument, a ragtag group of disgruntled, self-described classical liberals, seed oils disrespecters, public intellectuals and former Democrats assembled for the Rescue the Republic rally. The event was spearheaded by Dr. Bret Weinstein, a “canceled ” evolutionary biology professor turned podcaster.
The rich flavor and history of anchovies

Sep 30, 2024 | thespectator.com | Orlando Bird |Matthew Parris |Dave Seminara |Christopher Harding

We are blessed to be living in a golden age of anchovies. They’re everywhere — lacing salads, festooning pizzas, draped across inordinately expensive small plates. In certain circles, there are few more potent social signifiers than the red, yellow and blue of an Ortiz tin. Victory for the umami junkies. How times change.
Charles Baxter’s Blood Test is a necessary novel

Sep 12, 2024 | thespectator.com | Sam Forster |Sean Williams |Paul Wood |Orlando Bird

The books that most vividly and expansively illustrate the human experience are not the ones that grapple with life’s most romantic or fantastical tribulations. Charles Baxter’s latest work is splendid proof of this abiding literary fact. Baxter, a Minnesotan who is author of a multitude of novels and short story collections, returns with Blood Test, a book that delves into some quotidian yet disconcerting aspects of modern American life.
Love it or loathe it – the umami flavour of anchovy | The Spectator Australia

Jul 31, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Orlando Bird

A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine Hurst Publishers, pp.368, 18.99 We are blessed to be living in a golden age of anchovies. They’re everywhere – lacing salads, festooning pizzas, draped across inordinately expensive small plates. In certain circles, there are few more potent social signifiers than the red, yellow and blue of an Ortiz tin. Victory for the umami junkies.
Love it or loathe it - the umami flavour of anchovy

Jul 30, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Orlando Bird

Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Orlando Bird Love it or loathe it – the umami flavour of anchovy Linkedin Messenger Email A Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine Christopher Beckman Hurst Publishers, pp. 368, £18 We are blessed to be living in a golden age of anchovies. They’re everywhere – lacing salads, festooning pizzas, draped across inordinately expensive small plates. In certain circles, there are few more potent social signifiers than the red,...
Dionne Warwick: moments of beauty from a Motown legend

May 2, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Orlando Bird

Dionne Warwick, at Cheltenham Jazz Festival Credit: Still Moving Media For nearly three decades, Cheltenham Jazz Festival has been cheerfully repudiating the claim that jazz is “niche”.
A beautiful Australian novel that stares mortality in the face

Mar 2, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Orlando Bird

The Benedictine mission at New Norcia, Australia's only monastic town, in 1901 Credit: Getty In the New South Wales outback, a woman arrives at a place with “the feel of a 1970s resort or eco-commune”.
A beautiful Australian novel that stares mortality in the face

Mar 2, 2024 | sg.style.yahoo.com | Orlando Bird

Read full articleThe Benedictine mission at New Norcia, Australia's only monastic town, in 1901 - GettyIn the New South Wales outback, a woman arrives at a place with “the feel of a 1970s resort or eco-commune”. Many other details are hazy, not least her name, which we will never learn; gradually, though, we discover that she’s staying in a Catholic compound near the town in which she grew up. On the way, she visited her parents’ graves “for the first time in 35 years”.
Lockerbie, review: Sky's series is a masterclass in compassionate documentary-making

Nov 25, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Orlando Bird

Jim and Jane Swire talked openly about the death of their daughter, Flora, in the bombing Credit: Emily-Jayne Nolan/Sky Just after 7pm on 21 December, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103, bound for New York, exploded over Lockerbie.