Nolan's Odyssey will be out tomorrow. So I thought what better way to dive into the ancient Homeric epic poem than exploring their foods, cooking, dishes and the meaning of xenia, hospitality, kindness to strangers and welcoming others into ones house? Listen here: shows.acast.com/the-deliciou...

Honestly, start paying more attention to the women. They've been in the finals of the last three major tournaments and won two of them, plus it's genuinely decent football.

My timeline is a completely unhinged mix of despairing England fans, "anyone but England" Scotland fans cheering, South Asian/diaspora folks despairing that the team with the much bigger racism problem won, and Americans calling it "las Malvinas" for trolling This is 2010s era twitter levels

STARMER, BURNHAM! WHERE ARE MY FUCKING GOALS!

This is about to be a big mood for the rest of this week... in multiple countries

Me: Me when there’s football on: Me when an American thinks they’re being left wing by posting about las Malvinas: 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@rogueclassicist.bsky.social New episode is out! Food in Odyssey and Bronze Age Greece! X open.spotify.com/episode/58pB...

bluesky moment

My ‘all chai is coming strictly without opium’ sign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my sign

The Greek baristas make incredible iced freddo or capuchino and its the stuff of gods. Iced latte is boring blantness at best. Matcha is nonsense for the bin. Should be banned.

It's that liberals and leftists on Bluesky were right that McSweeneyism would fail and why, and the Labour strategy bros and prole-whisperers were wrong

Wild food podcaster in his natural environment! Oh could stay there happily for ever. The smell was just 😊😊😊 Should make it a eau de parfum! Hahaha Thisbis at the Artisan School of Food, in Nottinghamshire.

HE'S HOME!!!! 40 posters around the area. Probs 100 or so doors knocked on yesterday. A young girl had come to the door with her dad at one, when we'd knocked. She spotted him while coming home from a park. She and her friends alerted an adult who got the number off a nearby poster and rang us /1

What a moving interview on R4 BH with Peter Hennessey - says he’s retiring because his Parkinson’s means he can longer think clearly, but he sounded far clearer and made more sense than most people you hear on the radio

Ugly stuff? Broken Bones? The earliest archaeologists a century ago ignored these. But not my guest today! Flint Dibble is an ancient historian and archaeological scientist. Here we have a tantalising convo about meat & cooking it in Ancient Greek World! Listen 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/3glN...

"The year is 2035, TV news cameras stand outside Newcastle railway station as the annual migration of politicians, parliamentary staffers, civil servants and journalists flee the heat to Britain's summer capital..."

"New non-EU migrants arriving between 2021 and 2024 should have had substantially lower earnings than those arriving either before 2021 or after 2024. There is just one problem. The data says otherwise." ukandeu.ac.uk/the-paradox-...

Conventional wisdom says rooftop solar meets **exisiting** electricity demand. What if rooftop solar actually **increases** electricity demand, improving living standards and driving economic growth? This is exactly what our new analysis of Pakistan's solar boom shows. Let's dig in.. 🧵

Nigel Farage is what you get when populists only ever have to play on easy mode

Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.

all your cynically realistic posts about how clacton is 102% reform are going to look really funny if binface does actually somehow win

Not sure what's wilder, Binface having a 12pt lead over Farage in national polling, or the fact that this polling scenario even exists...

Count Binface translations continued... 🇩🇪 German: Graf Mülltonnengesicht 🇯🇵 Japanese: ゴミ箱伯爵 (Count Trashcan) or ビンフェイス伯爵 (katakana loanword version) You're welcome!

Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...

Wait Binface is accepting donations? I feel like this website would become a major campaign finance arm of Binface summer if this link is more widely publicised

With the publication of "The agropastoral debate in context: the relationship between the consumption and management of animals at Azoria on Crete" I wanted to share this conversation with Flint, where i ask him about food in the Ancient Greek world! open.spotify.com/episode/3glN... #podcast #food

THIS IS LITERALLY SOCIALISM

Screaming "WHO FUNDS YOU" at a man with a bin on his head, in a cool, non-rattled manner

Cometh the hour, cometh the bin

The Americans are starting to laugh at Farage as well. He’s going to go OUT OF HIS MIND.

I've never found Count Binface funny. But the right having a humourless strop about Count Binface is the most joyous political phenomenon in recent memory.

Imagine being so afraid of Binface you are asking activists from the other end of the country to come campaign in the safest Reform seat in the country

Pretty effective interview. The line “vote for me and save £380k on a second by election” is a cracker

Reform are still apparently briefing that they'd fully taken into account this scenario and, idk, something tells me they hadn't.

Found myself opining today on whether the anti-Farage bloc would turnout to vote for Binface at the by-election and started to wonder if this was smart electoral analysis or unserious madness...

"the bin situation has developed not necessarily to Reform's advantage"

Never start a land war in Asia, or an electoral war with a bin.

The funniest possible outcome here is unhinged Faragist rage against Count Binface actually memes the "Binface is a contender" timeline into existence

This is why I just can’t bear literary snobbery anymore. If at some point last year you read to the very end of a Colleen Hoover book or a Star Wars novelization and can talk about the characters and what the moral of the story probably was that puts you in top third of the population

This story is now peak Britain after the revelation that Binface is an Oxford classics grad

Somewhere out there Chris Mason is yelling into a phone "I need proof that Count Binface took money from Biffa/GDF suez. Binface is an agent of Big Bins is gonna get so many clicks"

The summer is definitely going to feature Le Monde headlines about "Comte de la Visage de Poubelle"

iron rule of British politics is even if a guy who dresses as a bin becomes prime minister he will have been to Oxbridge

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT POST!

This IMO is why I am really hoping Rachel reeves makes the appointment *immediately* The window for him to "unresign" is narrow, but if Reeves moves first he effectively is stuck between "Binface summer" and quitting a by-election he forced

When you wanted to "wrestle back the agenda" but the agenda is now whether or not you can beat a bin.

Media has cottoned on to the idea of Binface Summer...media is yet to ask the obvious follow on from by-elections being weird, turnout unpredictable and this one is weirder than most... ...what if Binface wins

Broke: heatwave summer Woke: brat summer Bespoke: Binface summer

Binface +10pts