Is it a tradition? Or is it just what @jayrayner1.bsky.social did? Is that the same thing?

Avengers Assemble II: Even More Avengers; And More Assemblies.

i can't add much to this without the risk of sounding embarrassingly gushing. safe to say i am delighted that @nigella.bsky.social will be joining us, and April can't come soon enough!

Reminds me of a very similar bit of training female members of the British secret service were given during WW2: "Don't ask a man who works for their government what's happening. Confidently tell him something you know to be inaccurate, and he will be forced to correct you".

Do you do a job *in* the hospitality industry? Is there a trend you've noticed on the ground that no one is reporting on yet? Please tell me about it harriet dot fitchlittle at ft dot com and maybe it could become one of our Insider's Notebook pages! Some writing experience necessary

spare a thought this morning for the part-time tiktok comedians looking bleary eyed on the tube after spending all night perfecting their first dance parody videos. content sleeps for no man.

...and he surprised me in many more ways than just his outfit!

Wrote about a new data centre proposed as part of the Truman Brewery redevelopment. Bit of a sub-plot here: a battle between the independent Tower Hamlets mayor and the Labour central government as.ft.com/r/0e720ddc-5...

Only a few days left to apply for the FT's Paul McClean Graduate Trainee programme -- deadline is 23:59pm on 8 January. I can't overstate what a great opportunity it is. Happy to chat if you're wondering about whether to apply. job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

J is for January and J is for JOY🤸‍♂️🪩 There's an all-new Appetites special in FTWeekend today and it's full of things to cook during the cold season - including a beautiful colour-coded calendar to last you the entire month. A good day to buy a paper! www.ft.com/joyofjan

Very fun Q&A happening right now with @jayrayner1.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social and Bee Wilson. Including an unwelcome answers to my question about whether it is ok to leave your Christmas ham out on the side all Christmas. www.ft.com/content/13dd...

Please tell these three wise food writers what troubles you at Christmas - eg the gymnastics of getting food to the table still hot, the sorrow of dry meat... - and they will give you very good answers.

Incredible, intensely moving piece. Astonishing courage from one man, and a very sad ending for another as.ft.com/r/74c0df5a-4...

If you work in or are interested in education, do give this a read. This investigation is about morals, money and misogyny (at an elite British institution famed for its feminist heritage) and several brave sources risked their careers to speak openly with us: on.ft.com/3XQUqDD @antoniacundy.ft.com

A gorgeous, gorgeous column by @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social about delicious food, parenting grown up children and being right. Three subjects very dear to my heart as.ft.com/r/e60ecf71-b...

"The Guardian called him a ‘mystic’, and Intel execs commissioned a caricature of him as a many-armed deity, each hand clutching fags and pints." An extraordinary profile by Tamlin Magee of his father, Michael, the technology journalist who became a leading figure in British occultism.

www.ft.com/content/420f... This is SO brilliant: Susie Wiles by Kellyanne Conway; Bad Bunny by Rita Moreno; Nigel Farage by Michael Gove; Zohran Mamdami by Bernie Sanders! WHAT a line-up 👏👏👏

We've put together a package of all Jancis Robinson's festive wine recommendations for the year. And still two more entries to come! www.ft.com/content/499d...

**FT GRAD SCHEME** applications are now open. Incredible opportunity for young wannabe hacks. Spread the word: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Legado in Shoreditch takes Best New Opening for 2025 and St John wins the Judge's Choice. Find out who else triumphed at the inaugural FT Weekend Business Lunch Awards, hosted in London by our critic Jay Rayner on.ft.com/4ixBlzB

We held the inaugural FT Weekend Business Lunch Awards today at the Cinnamon Club and awarded Bouchon Racine, Luca, The Bull at Charlbury, Legado and St John in front of their peers. This was the ovation for St John from their very finest peers

It's here! This issue is dedicated to how to do a few festive non-negotiables truly brilliantly. With @nigella.bsky.social @jayrayner1.bsky.social @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social & more. It's rainy! Go get a paper then get back into bed. Alternatively: www.ft.com/christmas2025

No review from me today cos it’s the @ft_weekend.com CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, edited by @harrietfl.ft.com. It’s a banger and ever better in print. A top team including @nigella.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social @jancisrobinson.com and, er, me nominate the Christmas food must haves. on.ft.com/4rnR3lb

A lot of what Skye did - seasonal cooking, eliminating single use plastics, using 'waste' products - is so well integrated into the cooking mainstream that it is easy to forget how pioneering it was. My obituary tries to give some small sense of it on.ft.com/4ptDNJF

Here's the story. on.ft.com/4rd5VT2

you have absolutely no reason to take a food and drink editor's word for it, but this book is going to be brilliant - in fact that is the word used most often by its many illustrious early readers

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME. I’m delighted to say a follow up to Nights Out At Home is coming. I’m delighted to say Nights Out In The Kitchen is published next September and to celebrate I’m going back out on tour with a brand new show. On priority sale tomorrow and general sale Friday.

We have news. @ftweekend.com is launching a set of business lunch awards. Nominate. Nominate like the wind. And then an illustrious panel of judges will choose the winners. Plus me.

Good morning, FT Weekend is launching a best business lunch award! You can join in! NOMINATE a restaurant and WIN lunch for two at Simpsons on the Strand. Or do it out of gratitude and support for the restaurant biz.. on.ft.com/4q1CqTY

Help FT Weekend crown the best business lunch restaurant in London - @harrietfl.ft.com is calling for your nominations and votes www.ft.com/content/00f3...

Exciting times for the bon viveurs among you. We are launching a Business Lunch Awards in partnership with OpenTable - because lunch is good, lunch is fun, lunch is professional advantageous. To do this, we need nominations. and there are three (!) excellent prizes up for grabs on.ft.com/4gZEnw3

i personally have nothing but fond feelings towards national ID cards. i paid a whole £10 for an *extremely* legitimate looking one in 2006 only to have it immediately confiscated by the bartender who pointed out "it's literally on the front page today that the government has rejected this scheme".

Earlier this year, I spent considerable time working on an essay for @ftweekend.com about issues around autism: www.ft.com/content/d1ba... I read a great deal about the condition and spoke to several experts. There is no indication whatever that use of a single drug in pregnancy is linked to it.

Congratulations to @ftweekend.com readers Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden on the birth of their first child I have been sent this picture twice already this morning www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

not saying jeremy clarkson is a bad man but he is consistently the only person in this village who doesn't do a little hand wave of acknowledgment if you have to pull over for him while driving. which is the countryside equivalent of not saying thank you when someone holds the door.

I wrote about the loss of excitement around veganism, which I think reflects a deeper shift: progressives have lost faith that they can change the world. The sooner we get some idealism back, the better on.ft.com/3UPnqdq

I missed this piece at the time but it neatly sums up how incredibly irritating vegan food packaging is on.ft.com/4mvUtze

If you must salad make it Maison Francois, Brutto, Bocca di Lupa, Via Carota or Zuni Café. The Weekend FT complete with the definitive summer salad mini magazine is still on sale today on.ft.com/4fLqzVm

Elsewhere in today’s @ftweekend.com we have a spiffing salad supplement in which I set out to save the dreary British salad from itself. on.ft.com/4mlVcDb

we made a whole magazine about salad. it is beautiful! it is full of recipes from chefs who really love them! **you can pull it out and keep it in your kitchen!** or read it online ft.com/summerofsalad

When was the last time you witnessed - or better yet, participated in - a spontaneous mass performance of the popular folk song Why Are We Waiting?

Attention all designated holiday cooks - this one's for us on.ft.com/3ULqHtY

Went to a proper restaurant for an Old School Lunch and on the table next to me close enough that I heard every word a food and drink PR was pitching a client about the launch of their new restaurant. “We want to be in the FT”, they said. “Well the FT doesn’t really do restaurants”, she said.

Welcome to FT Edit! When the news is overwhelming, we bring you eight stories a day, chosen by editors, offering clarity, fresh perspectives, insight and inspiration — plus some extra treats! Explore more at www.ft.com/ftedit or, if you're reading on iOS, find us on the FT app: on.ft.com/44SHfGA

without singling out any critics, or any chart-topping podcasting duos, did anyone who recommended this show actually watch it??? or just read summary (bookshop! murders! mark gatiss!) and review accordingly? i am your prime sucker for this sort of stuff but it is so dull and unendearing

The spotify playlist attached to this will brighten even a v cloudy morning. Nun jazz! www.ft.com/content/a299...

good morning. today i will be mostly be found hiding from my neighbours. on.ft.com/46sQL4r

Our own @harrietfl.ft.com brings the Hot Cotswolds Summer to FT Weekend. An absolute delight including this line: "I asked a neighbour if she wanted to get a drink, and she suggested we drive 20 minutes to “farmhouse” rather than walk to the pub" which made me shiver with joy.. on.ft.com/4f7HAsh

I have seen it three times so I believe it to be intentional and not an embarrassing mistake: this summer's hottest look for Gen Z girls is to walk around with your trouser fly open.

The lunch appreciators are multiplying www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...