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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for linguine with clams, squid (and/or prawns), mussels and tomato
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Somewhere – probably in one of the shoe boxes in a larger box, Russian doll-style, under the bed – is a strip from a magazine. It is a cartoon of a man sitting at a table eating, while under the table his feet are in ...
The government’s ‘3% pay rise’ is a cut in real terms for nurses
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“We owe you more than words can say,” the prime minister told my colleagues on International Nurses Day last year. He said we were modern-day Florence Nightingales, and thanked us for what we were doing in the pandemi...
Rachel Roddy’s favourite way with carrots – recipe
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AAA: a standard-size dry battery cell, backstage pass I hope for, Australian Archaeological Association, Japanese rock band, morse code for aerial attacker, and a trio of food writers, Ada, Anna, Anna. Ada is Ada Boni...
Labour’s Rachel Reeves: ‘We are in the strongest position maybe in 10 jare'
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There has not been much in the last decade that has given Rachel Reeves cause for optimism. Serious and careful, she has been one of Labour’s most candid critics in discussing how far the party has to go to win back t...
‘People fear what they don’t understand’: Rachel Levine, pioneering trans official, on protecting Americans’ health
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This year has been excruciating for many Americans who have been battered by Covid, extreme weather disasters and political discord, but for one individual 2021 will be remembered for having propelled her into nationa...
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for lentils, roast grapes and goat’s cheese
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It was fascinating to see lentils growing on low plants, protected by bean-sized green pods. We were in a field in the middle of Sicily, and there were chickpeas growing, ook, also in neat green jackets, and in the ne...
Mutual aid brought communities together – how can the left harness their power?
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Ask members of one Covid mutual aid group in Whalley Range, south Manchester, about what they feel most proud of and two things crop up: the hardship fund and the epic street clean. It’s not hard to see why. Transform...
Deceit review – Rachel Nickell drama probes the ethics of entrapment
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It is an indicator of almost everything that was wrong with the Rachel Nickell murder investigation that I could not, on hearing of a drama being made about the case, remember if anyone had ever been found guilty. Maar ...
Striving to be a supermum does nobody any good, including the kids
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Britain’s mothers are whacked because they are trying to be perfect. So says a survey published last week, one that has prompted me to start a new club. It will be called something along the lines of the Supermums’ Su...
Rachel Jones: say cheeeeese review – mutating paintings put a grin on your face
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Mouths speak, chew, swallow and spit. They kiss and they sing. Teeth chatter, grind and decay. They ache and they fall out. Mouths and teeth and lips recur in Rachel Jones’s work. The artist also wants us to think of ...
Mutual aid was a vital safety net during Covid. Britain’s about to need it again
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Voor die pandemie, Edwin, a 59-year-old retired nurse, was just about getting by. His home in Northfield, an outer suburb of Birmingham, was “in chaos”, so crowded with stuff that he could only really use one room. ...
Rachel Cusk’s singular novel stands out on wide-ranging Booker longlist
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This is a longlist light on debuts and surprises, heavy on historical fiction, with an impressive geographical reach and an interest in the weight of the past. The biggest names look to the future, egter: Kazuo Ishi...
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for tagliatelle with lentil and mushroom ragu
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“If you cook in a bad mood, the bad mood will season your food.” Now, had this been uttered by anyone else, I might have been interested in having a discussion about that statement – philosophical, scientific or silly...
Rachel Roddy’s recipe for broad bean favata with courgettes and tomatoes
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I have found them under both the counter and the fridge. Every week, I prise a flat, hard thing from the bottom of my foot, wondering what it is, and then I remember. At the end of spring, I bought a few kilos of broa...
What Succession gets right about the rich
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How should a rich person be? In Succession, the HBO drama about the trials and tribulations of the ultra-wealthy Roy family and their crumbling media dynasty, the answer is, "Ek ken Cooper vandat hy 'n baba was.", unhappy. In the first two seasons, ...