I went for lunch with Reform and my hangover lasted two days

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Happy Saturday why not kick things off with the Saturday Read! Open for a dispatch from Reform’s roadshow, stay for the ultimate takedown of Bridget Jones

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Against slop

Me on EatingWithTod, and how Instagram infantilised one of the world’s greatest food cities

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For the last Saturday Read of the year Jason Cowley returns for a final time to share 10 of the most memorable pieces from his 16 year editorship. It’s a good one!!

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Here is a piece about how “Irish people hate English people” jokes are boring and I’m sick of hearing them!!!! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

A happy customer!

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Alarming stuff

Repatriating the Elgin marbles has been a favourite soap box of mine for sometime. I’ve argued that the aesthetic case is the moral case for their return for years. No serious conservative should argue for their continued detention in the British Museum.