Matthew Malthouse

Chips for dinner.

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#food #cooking #frying #chips #dinner

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The "We're not racists, honest guv, Party"

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-councillor-ken-tranter-6hp2m7pq6

#Politics #UK #Reform #Racism

Kate Lamble attempts to untangle the financial engineering that underpins parts of the water industry.

Why does Thames Water have £22.8bn in debt secured against only £18bn in assets?

(16 minutes listen)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w9fx

#Water #Privatisation #AssetStripping #RevenueExtraction #Radio #Journalism

Is a summer storm a sign that we're having a summer?

https://youtu.be/duVyo7KYcZs

#BritishWeather #storm #hail #Video #Sound

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-judge-humiliates-the-regime

#Politics #Trump #DOGE #cuts #NEH

Just finished Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson.

The fifth volume of The Malazan Book of the Fallen.

#books #reading #fantasy #series #epic

Twelve yeasted bread rolls fresh out of the oven.

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#food #cooking #baking #bread #yeast

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so."
— Ford Prefect

But sammiches have a great deal of reality about them.

#food #lunch #sandwich #cheese #ham

A dozen rolls.

110g dough balls, 100g (3½ oz) after baking, burger bun size but not so round, being constrained by the tray.

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#food #cooking #baking #bread #BreadMaking #yeast #rolls

The latest spew of fascism from Palantir was not actually anything new. This from last December.

https://futurism.com/future-society/palantir-ceo-war-crimes

#Politics #corporate #fascism #BigBusiness #Palantir

Horace is quite vigorous today, having more than tripled in the five hours since being fed.

#food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough #starter

Now cool, torn apart where they fused in the bake to show fluffy interior crumb.

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#food #cooking #baking #bread #yeast #rolls

Split rolls.

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#food #cooking #baking #bread #yeast

Baguette-ish…

If your foot-long is 13 inches would that be a baker's foot?

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#food #cooking #baking #bread #yeast #baguette

"Krapp's Last Tape"

becket by Pinter at The Royal Court in 2006.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qzdk

#TV #television #Theatre #HaroldPinter #SamuelBeckett #RoyalCourt

9 long rolls.

Next time I do a yeast dough I might try for foot-longs.

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#food #cooking #baking #bread #yeast #rolls

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/24/how-riverfords-guy-singh-watson-became-the-most-brutally-honest-farmer-in-britain

“[Cardoons] would be a dream crop – if only people liked eating them.”

At one time — in pre sobriety days — the late Clarissa Dixon-Wright did cookery demonstrations in Notting Hill's Books for Cooks.

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#food #farming #cooking #FunnyStory