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The best-selling author of Jasper Jones returns with yet another an achingly mesmeric coming of age tale. For the global politics junkie: A Promised Land by Barack Obama. The two-term American President looks back on what is surely one of the 21st Centurys most remarkable lives with candour, insight and trademark cool. For the Australian politics devotee: Sex, Lies And Question Time by Kate Ellis. Want to know what its like to a female politician in the 21st Century? You wont get a more up ...

db Meets: Tom Lord 22nd December, 2020 by Eloise Feilden We caught up with Sheffield-based bartender Tom Lord, founder of Hospitality Gin, to find out the story behind the start-up, which donates all of its profits to the hospitality industry. Lord donates 100% of his profits to the hospitality industry What started as a way of raising money for those struggling in the drinks industry as a result ...

by David Butcher It’s an inspired format, this. Having opinionated experts sample food products “blind” is clever in itself, but putting the edibles on a sushi-style conveyor belt makes it visual fun too. This week – coffee. Fred Sirieix is scathing about the first cup he tries, claiming it resembles a delicacy from his schooldays: “Jus de chaussettes – sock juice is what it reminds me of,” he splutters. The resident cof...

Jamie Dornan has revealed he quit drinking for part of 2020, as he began doing it all the time during lockdown and his wife Amelia Warner has stopped. The Fifty Shades of Grey actor, 38, interviewed his friend, Bonos daughter Eve Hewson in the Winter 2020 issue of Wonderland Magazine, during which he shed some light on his own life at the moment. Revealing that his wife, who he wed in 2013, was off the booze, he explained that he had decided to quit for the craic and to show support.  Stoppe...

JO BRAND admitted she felt awful after being called out for a joke about throwing battery acid at Nigel Farage.

>> anthony: in uncertain times i always look for the comforting and the familiar, the things that always, for me, made england great. like one of my favorite restaurants on earth, and one of the chefs i like and respect most. >> anthony: this restaurant helps make a persuasive argument that there is some kind of merit to british cooking. >> jay: yes, its absolutely true. >> anthony: fergus henderson, the most influential chef of the last two decades, even though you have likely never heard of hi...

Very proud, but the -- and i wouldnt be here, you know? my great-great grandparents arrived as shtetl jews off the boat into the east end of london, and here i am still till this day, and thats a very, very important thing. a very tolerant country. this is a very traumatic moment. >> anthony: will it all work out in the end? >> jay: i have no idea. >> anthony: wow. >> jay: its the honest truth, nothing is certain. >> anthony: you know what i like? a good pub. like the princess victoria in west l...

Pshh, pshh. >> anthony: ah, sizzly. >> fergus: chicken stock. pshh, pshh. and toast. >> anthony: done. thank you. >> jay: good. ah, well, thank you. >> anthony: pigs head and potato pie. the head brined, slowly simmered until tender, stripped away from the bone, and seasoned, then baked in a pastry with potatoes. yes, please. a traditional dish that exemplifies everything i believe in. >> anthony: wow. thank you, sir. >> jay: thank you. >> fergus: all right. >> anthony: oh, look at that. thats w...

Rage all, of the absurdity, all of these things that i didnt think anybody else was seeing or responding to in the same way. it was unlike anything ive seen. >> anthony: artist, author, icon ralph steadman continues to make art every day. he was the visual expression of dr. hunter s. thompsons finest works. >> ralph steadman: when hunter came here in 1991-2, i brought him down to a pub here. "oh, martin, this is hunter." "hello." >> anthony: here would be ralphs local, the chequers inn in kent. ...

Italian sort of way, and so you can get lost. >> anthony: roast bone marrow with parsley and caper salad, sourdough bread, made here. a dish that would become absolutely iconic. if youve ever eaten bone marrow anywhere, its very likely because they did it here first. my dinner companion is food critic and author jay rayner, a man never with a shortage of opinions. >> jay: bones. >> anthony: thank you, yes. >> fergus: salt. and there you go, give it your all. >> anthony: thats a simple good thing...