I sometimes wonder why Delia lost her psychological hold over UK cookery and I think this piece suggests a lot of the reasons - she's prescriptive at a time that favours lavish handfuls, anti-fads in an era of small plates. For her, cooking is problem-solving, not a sensuous art.

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the level of posting about the graduation proposal is SO unhinged. thousands of people telling you online to dump your fiancé and ripping into one of the happiest days of your life is probably significantly more upsetting than getting proposed to on your graduation!

selling 1 x body movement ticket for pre-2pm entry, face value @ £70!

v gassed to be one of this year’s Broadcastnow hotshots 😎🌸🎀💅 (all those years of making tea paid off)

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So so so so so chuffed with this 5 STAR review from the financial times for GUNTER. We're not crying, you are! Thank you so much Alice Saville for writing. Tickets starting to go- please come, we would love to have you!

this was my barbie

plz spare a thought for the number of student theatre companies on my london train from Edinburgh Festival Fringe this morning who’ve clearly fallen out irreversibly& will never speak to each other again. some convos have been more devastating but also quietly entertaining than any show i saw

I need you to know that this object is in such exceptional condition that when I saw it I screamed AND cried. It is an unbelievable survival, and makes so clear just how vibrantly colourful the early modern period was

Very happy to report that yesterday I passed my doctoral viva!!! 🐒🦍🦧🤠 Thanks to both my examiners (Tim Guilford and Simon W. Townsend) as well as both my supervisors (Thibaud Gruber & Dora Biro), and my wonderful partner Fred Legg for keeping me going. #PhDone (etc.)

Such a tragic loss. CJ Sansom was one of the finest ever writers of historical fiction. He was an inspiration to me and to many others. We are poorer without him. panmacmillan.com/blogs/general/…

ohhhh my god you saw the northern lights last night? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?should we invite lyra belacqua

Drive Your Plough Over The Bones Of The Dead

Sebastian Stan has shown amazing versatility this year and it's sad that some people will always know him as Bucky Barnes first when it's important to remember he's primarily Carter Baizen.

Fuck everyone get out of Selfridges now gun shots!! I’m inside