Stonebeck Wensleydale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🐄 from Low Riggs Farm. This is proper farmhouse Wensleydale. Soft crumbly cheese, smells buttery and acidic. It tastes sour, rich, loaded with umami, of toast, grass, elderflower and roast chicken. Paired with a sliced Conference pear and a donut peach. 8/10 #redharescheese

Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest! Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest! Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure! My Burns Night dram. A Bowmore from Liquid Gold, a long gone indie bottler. Tastes of smoky pineapples and salty lemon sweets. #redharedrinks

🔴⚪️⚫️!! It’s the back four again! Sometimes a back six when pressed, I guess. Take me home United Road To the place I belong To Old Trafford To see United Take me home United Road

Bun bo hue rice noodle soup with rare beef 🇻🇳 from Pho Pham, Manette Street W1. If you’re ever stuck in Soho around 9, and fancy something better than Maccy D’s then try this place. I always get the bun bo hue, it’s spicy enough and it comes at exactly the right temperature. #redharesrestaurants

If this person is one of three, the other two surely know they’re useless. And £2bn is on the small side, it’s for someone nearer the beginning of their careers anyway. This is also the level of experience of most pension trustees, by the way. That’s why they’re encouraged to undergo training.

Cubano sándwich 🇨🇺 just to show that not all things the work canteen does are wonderful. I’m not sure about this. A bit bland, would have preferred the cheese slightly melted and the ham maybe a smidge thicker. The #workscran can’t always be amazing.

Nobody hates Britain more than those on the British right. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Hey American friends You’re still my friends, because you’re kind and nice people. Be safe and well.

Young master Hare made something like this a couple of weeks back. It was his first time cooking with Sichuan pepper. Turned out pretty well. 50hertzfoods.com/blogs/recipe...

The only person from the Alex Ferguson era (present staff excepted) whose opinion counts for Manchester United is Sir Alex Ferguson himself. Everyone else is no more than a committed fan. Even the class of 92. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Wollaston and now Watson, 2026 clearly a good year for cyclists who are called W-something-son!

Veggie pad ga prao 🇹🇭 soy mince fried with fish sauce, soy sauce, Thai basil and lime, with fresh chillies, a fried egg, fried onions, chilli oil and pak choi on rice. The 🇹🇭 #workscran is getting better, really tasty and satisfying (although can’t go wrong with fried egg on rice really).

Delisserie in Temple Fortune, closed for 8 years now. I had so many moments there - kids’ first meals out, birthday parties, and my first proper shakshuka. I even ran into celebs there, like Rachel Stevens of S Club 7 fame. But one day, without warning, the door shut on that chapter of my life.

Butter chicken and bhel puri 🇮🇳 from Indian Rasoi Restaurant, Fortis Green N2. Quite an unassuming place, but the curries are pretty good. Does all the favourites correctly, excellent for a winter dinner. #redharesrestaurants

Untrue, of course. UK got lots of support, and never asked for military intervention. But it's not the South Atlantic Treaty Org. At US insistence to avoid colonial wars, NATO only covers Europe, N. America, and the Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer. e.g. Hawaii and Guam aren't covered, either.

Aarewasser 🇨🇭🐄 from Jumi Cheese. Semi-hard cheese, smells buttery and lemony. It tastes creamy, sour, and of umami and new mown grass. Smells and tastes like beef jus near the rind, which is washed with Aare river water. Paired with Waitrose salted caramel chocolate truffles. 7/10 #redharescheese

Broke up with my long-term girlfriend that I live with yesterday. Told her it was because of her anger issues. Real factor that tipped the balance was the fact she got into the secret Stranger Things episode theory and stayed up til 1am thinking it would be released.

Manchester is Red 🔴⚪️⚫️

Rafe is 100% right. For example, almost all the food experiences I’ve posted about take place in London, a global city and also my home. I cannot understand anybody who doesn’t find this sort of existence happy.

The result of the first race of the WorldTour season!

Young master Hare has asked if we can go to the Tour start in 2027. Wasn’t planning on this, but now I guess I have to make it happen

Pencil Sepp in for the trilogy in 2026!

Lamb kebab kati roll 🇮🇳 from Kolkati, Seven Dials Market, Seven Dials WC2. If you’re looking for a quick munch with spicy flavours, this Britishified Kolkata classic isn’t bad. Spicy, warm, meaty and very satisfying. Street food but oh so good #redharesrestaurants

I’ve decided to present all of Liverpool’s trophies to Manchester United on the grounds they’re more deserving of them.

Lamb stew, colcannon, charred hispi cabbage 🇮🇪 don’t get a lot of Irish #workscran, I must say. But it was perfect for a bloody cold day. Warm, soft pillowy mash, smoky veg and hot savoury stew, nothing better.

In Our Time enters season 2, after 1,089 Season 1 episodes.

Pretty cool idea. Choi Kang Rok, a chef whose food I hope to eat one day, has released a series of YouTube videos about ingredients in Japanese cuisine. youtu.be/eOuRDr4EpRE

Wout’s not going to the Giro 😭 On the other hand he’s going to try for that maillot verde 🙌

All I ask is that we keep supporting the academy and keep blooding our young players. That will do. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

It’s an entertaining piece, but the thing is, Britain is really “a damp garden shed”. The roof leaks. The door is nearly off its hinges. The window glass is broken. The carpenter broke a hole in the wall and then fucked off. It needs fixing. Not slogans. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ooo Torn now between who I’m rooting for (besides Emmanuel Houcou 🇫🇷 of Q36.5)! On one hand I want Jonas to complete his set. On the other I want João to win his maiden Grand Tour.

The FT is THE best news source right now. Followed by the Economist. Many will disagree, but I don’t read news to ‘both sides’ something or pander to my own prejudices.

Korean pop culture may be having a moment, so my recommendation is to seek out Korean reality TV. Squid Game is much closer to real life than people think. Shows like Physical 100, The Devil’s Plan, and Culinary Class Wars are brutal. CCW’s season finale drops tomorrow.

My daughter made a Basque cheesecake. It’s one of the best desserts I’ve ever eaten, she’s taken a recipe from Nicola Lamb’s Sift, and tweaked it to “make it better”. I’m so terribly proud of her.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

A lot of people really have too much time on their hands.

Thread incoming for a really good meal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 at the Walnut Tree, Llanddewi Skirrid, Abergavenny NP7. I loved the old school hospitality of it, beautiful drinks, straightforward extremely well done food, and impeccable service. It was utterly lovely. #redharesrestaurants

I make it a point to patronise shops on my high street. I don’t buy a lot of stuff, but I do eat out a fair bit, and when I do, it’s generally a little restaurant or cafe that serves nice food to its local community. Use it or lose it.

Presumably they also have something called “dry” weather, which might even be “warm”. Can’t for the life of me remember that these things are, it’s been so long.

Ok, this is hard. 💪

Whoa. £50 for 10 years service!

Let China have the Musang King durians, I say. They’re just sickly sweet. I prefer the more bitter, more complex varieties like Blackthorn and Red Prawn. Even plain old D24 tastes better than Musang King. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Poor chaps. Poor cask.

Of course Amorim didn’t have any faith in the academy players. They were taught to play attacking football based on a back four. It would be years before players taught to play his 3-4-3 came through. What Manchester United is, has always been our kids. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

www.forbes.com/sites/joemic... "Scotch whisky in 2026 is not about bigger, rarer, or more expensive bottles. It’s about clarity, balance, and trust." A trend we whisky drinkers welcome. Good article summarising the trend in the industry.

Mimolette aged 12 months 🇫🇷 🐄 from the Isigny-Saint-Mere cooperative. Smells gamey and woody, tastes of apricots, butterscotch and hazelnuts. A hard cheese, with rind nibbled by cheese mites, said to improve its flavour. Paired with Frank’s RedHot Sauce flavour Mini Cheddars. 6/10 #redharescheese

Wait, you mean not everyone does this?!

New series of posts for 2026: cheese reviews. No reason other than I like cheese. It’s delicious food, and carbon efficient. Good cheese is also about craft and terroir, and eating it creates a sense of place, which is a concept I’m quite interested in. #redharescheese

Chicken kara-age and spicy yuzu ramen 🇯🇵 from Kanada-Ya Carnaby, Foubert’s Place W1. The broth was decent, but the noodles were not the firm texture I’d asked for. The addition of pickled mustard greens was nice. Decent fried chicken. On balance I’d go to Ippudo though. #redharesrestaurants