800 libraries have been closed due to spending cuts since 2010 — a fifth of the UK's total. And many of those that remain have seen their opening hours cuts.

Across northern #Gaza, there is no way of telling where the destruction starts or ends. No matter from what direction you enter #Gaza City, homes, hospitals, schools, health clinics, mosques, apartments, restaurants - all completely flattened. An entire society now a graveyard.

The Lego Mini Chef restaurant, Denmark — review on.ft.com/3V4sfAb | opinion

You won’t find these recipes on the menu at Ravinder Bhogal’ restaurant Jikoni, but they are cooks’ treats that nurture and nourish the team ft.com/content/009b87…

I had a nice chat with a newsletter about how we put the Business Lunch magazine together. professionallunch.substack.com/p/inside-the-f…

This Journalist Visited Every 4.8-Starred Bar in Manhattan and You Won't Believe What She Discovered 👀 Great piece by Gina Jiménez on what high ratings really mean on.ft.com/4epljnX

Guy who doesn’t respect the walkie talkie rules: Ugh, I’m so hungover Guy who does: rlly 👀? Over

is it pathological or normal that i'm desperate for my boyfriend to invite the Instagram grifter girlfriend-of-a-friend to dinner?

Taramasalata crisis? Brilliantly funny take down of the neon pink “fish slurry” which - according to Tim Hayward - nobody has actually eaten since the turn of the century ft.com/content/56386b…

Some news. Delighted to be joining the Financial Times as part of this terrific expanded food and drink team. My move will come in a couple of months time.

Holly shit. WHAT A LINE-UP. This is the Cream (as in tne 1960's super-trio, not tne dairy product) of food and drink writing. My love for the weekend FT has just escalated even higher.

Well this is BIG news - after 25 years as the Observer's restaurant critic, Jay Rayner is moving to the FT. And he's being joined by Marina O'Loughlin - more here: hot-dinners.com/2024112113738/…

I think Janine Gibson watched Avengers Assemble, and wondered what it would look like if you did it for the world’s best food and drink writers.

Maybe this year is the year you actually enjoy December? Buy an FT today to find out how…. Ft.com/christmas2024

Do you - live in NY? - write well? - *and* work in hospitality? Please get in touch and pitch me your perspective on a trend in your industry, something like this: on.ft.com/3BocXPQ harriet.fitchlittle at ft.com

£5 to drink wine and look at charts in a legendary City church. if you've been chatting up a hedgie on the apps, now is your chance to suggest the perfect first date.

Behind your margarita is an agricultural industry strained to breaking point! For the FT Weekend today Christine Murray and I went to tequila country to get to the bottom of an historic agave oversupply and its effect on the industry and local people. on.ft.com/4gDkjxr

THE CRITICS ARE HERE! We are so, so happy about it that I think we might have accidentally hazed them? Presenting: the critics’ rules for modern dining…rated and *heavily* debated by Nigella Lawson Prue Leith ruthreichl Brooklyn Beckham & many more on.ft.com/4inLy0Q