I went for lunch with Reform and my hangover lasted two days www.newstatesman.com/culture/food...

"They want slow service and for their food to come in paper bags; ; mostly they want to recoup something long lost to them, if only they knew what it was." What’s up with London’s sandwich bros? asks @finnmcredmond.bsky.social

Outstanding column on the undergrad-level politics of Michael D, Catherine Connolly and too many others. As she says, ask yourselves how a fellow small state such as Estonia feels about the Irish non-debate about defence against Russia www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Happy Saturday why not kick things off with the Saturday Read! Open for a dispatch from Reform’s roadshow, stay for the ultimate takedown of Bridget Jones saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-saturd...

Against slop Me on EatingWithTod, and how Instagram infantilised one of the world’s greatest food cities www.newstatesman.com/culture/food...

For the last Saturday Read of the year Jason Cowley returns for a final time to share 10 of the most memorable pieces from his 16 year editorship. It’s a good one!! saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-saturd...

Here is a piece about how “Irish people hate English people” jokes are boring and I’m sick of hearing them!!!! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

If you’re not subscribed to the New Statesman’s weekly newsletter - the Saturday Read - then now is a great time to change that saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-saturd...

Is Sinn Féin the worst opposition party in Europe? As incumbent governments fell across the world, Ireland's establishment held firm. By Finn McRedmond www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Alarming stuff

Repatriating the Elgin marbles has been a favourite soap box of mine for sometime. I’ve argued that the aesthetic case is the moral case for their return for years. No serious conservative should argue for their continued detention in the British Museum.