Unless Phillip Schofield’s ex-lover contradicts his version of events to The Sun & BBC, then it’s time to stop this relentless persecution of a guy who’s lost everything and looks right on the edge to me. He doesn’t seem to have committed any crime, and he’s not a Govt minister.

HOMIES ON DONKEYS. xx theguardian.com/food/2023/jun/…

Listening to Sir Stephen Fry on Test Match Special during the tea break at Lord’s. Delightful.

“It's incredibly difficult, we used to have an incredible freedom of movement…the EU was very good for that” Chef and campaigner Tom Kerridge tells Robert Peston Brexit has made the UK unattractive for hospitality staff and exacerbated worker shortages #Peston

Jeremy King to open his new restaurant in London next spring. The Park, “very much within the grand cafes and brasseries mould”, will open in the new Park Modern building on the corner of Bayswater and Queensway.

Thanks for the shout out Jack Kessler Standard News The Good Food Guide

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A taste of the top chefs for less The Good Food Guide thegoodfoodguide.co.uk/editorial/feat…

Dining out solo is one of life’s great pleasures, in my opinion. It’s also a great way for a restaurant to offer the best hospitality - always look after the solo diner. To charge them double seems cynical and just not very, er, hospitable.

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Fine dining scooplet: Jeremy King is to reopen Le Caprice, the West End restaurant that closed during Covid. Part of his comeback after being ousted from the Wolseley. Also a homecoming - Le Caprice is where he and Chris Corbin started out in 1981. thetimes.co.uk/article/8b77a8…