My blog is out: I am a cider drinker (again): The rise of British craft #cider is enough to tempt even a relapsed Westcountry drinker like me back to the stuff. Plus: what #wine I've been drinking this week... in Abergavenny aviewfrommytable.substack.com/p/i-am-a-cid...

“Corbyn sorry for confusion” - his own? It’s a bit late to start apologising for that now, Magic Grandpa; #Corbyn sorry for 'confusion' as new party membership launched www.bbc.com/news/article...

My blog is out: I am a cider drinker (again): The rise of British craft #cider is enough to tempt even a relapsed Westcountry drinker like me back to the stuff. Plus: what #wine I've been drinking this week... in Abergavenny aviewfrommytable.substack.com/p/i-am-a-cid...

Great piece

All that royal flattery and five days later Trump tells the world that Britain's going to hell and London's governed by sharia law. To repeat: the scorpion always stings.

Wish people would stop saying Trump has done a U-turn on Ukraine. He does this every few weeks. Putin then makes a violent point of ignoring him. Trump's alleged change of heart is just a prelude to his next humiliation by Putin.

statistic of the day

Well, he's the expert. #trump #UN

This is the thanks we get for lavishing him with a full state visit - more racist lies and smears about our capital city and its mayor. I assume the condemnation from Starmer will be coming any moment now?

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Let’s be clear: What Donald Trump said in public, in plain view, on his own social media feed is more corrupt and dangerous than anything Richard Nixon was caught on tape saying in the White House tapes. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/rid-me-of-...

So Keir Starmer’s brown nosing of the senile old fascist really seems to have paid off, eh? #Trump

The godfather of Greek wine in the UK, @hnwines.bsky.social’s Steve Daniel, with Babis Bekris’s amazing Akrathos assyrtiko

I was told foreign aid is bad

Possibly niche but this is actually quite a big deal for French organic #wine growers. Will also shine a spotlight anew on controversy around copper-based fungicides being permitted under organic rules worldwide www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2025/09/fren...

At @hnwines.bsky.social tasting. Always wondered: the way somms crowd around gassing, blocking tables/spittoons - is that like something they teach in somm school as a key skill? A constant across all big on-trade-focussed tastings. And sooo annoying

New from me in Vineyard magazine: why it’s time for English wineries to switch to renewable energy #wine www.vineyardmagazine.co.uk/news/the-wis...

You would need a heart of stone not to laugh Sarah Ferguson dropped from multiple charities over Epstein email www.bbc.com/news/article...

American immigrant here: Brits used to always ask why I moved over, which would become a boring conversation about US vs UK that I've had 100 times with 100 people. It's been almost a year since anyone has asked. It's the one part of the current presidency I'm thankful for.

Tbh one of things I find most tedious about #Trump’s fascist ambitions is the way we Brits are supposed to suddenly give a toss about peripheral US figures - #CharlieKirk, #JimmyKimmel - who hardly any of us had heard of + who mean nothing here. Can’t believe they’re behaving like this in eg Spain

🔴Where Is the Opposition to Nigel Farage’s Immoral Mass Deportation Plan? Keir Starmer’s refusal to explicitly condemn Farage's plans to tear thousands of families and communities apart is only clearing his path to Downing Street, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/09/22/w...

Can’t thing why Keir Starmer hasn’t said something similar. Oh yes, because he’s trying to pander to racist voters who’ll never vote Labour anyway

‘An estimated 42,000 Bolsonaro supporters crowded the Avenida Paulista in São Paulo with a giant American flag the week before the ex-president was sentenced, but it made no difference. Not this time.’ Forrest Hylton on Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Running around with a chainsaw isn't a viable political strategy? Who knew?

“We will always be friends.” That’s nice, Grandad. Just sign here please.

My Wine Wall of Shame: The Heavy Bottle Dilemma in Wine Industry | the drunken cyclist thedrunkencyclist.com/2025/09/17/m...

Umm...What's going on here then? find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/1661...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

We have kept flagging at @thenewworldmag.bsky.social that one of the big drivers of the “small boats crisis” was the nature of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal – which Nigel Farage grudgingly backed (with a non-aggression deal at the 2019 election). But it’s often missing from the debate.

At huge #wine press tasting with no food and have made mistake of starting to think about kebabs in nearby Borough Market. Obv now can think of little else

Starmer at that press conference, giving every impression of a nervous chipmunk sitting next to an alligator that's just swallowed a hand grenade.

Join Corbyn’s party and your personal data is shipped to the United States. A lot of far left trust in the Trump administration keeping to the rule of law and treaty obligations on data about its supporters.

Woah. It's one thing for Trump to ban journalists from White House press conferences; it's another for Downing Street to do his bidding on UK soil.

Or as Andrew Jefford has said, “This fascinating, limpidly written and admirably researched book shines a light on the price we’re all evading: #wine’s strangely tentacular environmental footprint. Read it to understand – and to help.” Order from academieduvinlibrary.com/products/roo...

Praise for my new book, Rooted in Change: The Stories Behind Sustainable Wine, from Ambriel’s Wendy Outhwaite, maker of some of my favourite English sparklers. Order from lnkd.in/ed5hrVrG

"Fred West and his wife Rose seem to have a knack for getting into trouble!"

“See you in Valhalla” - for anyone that doubted the kind of deluded extremists #CharlieKirk was and his loathsome MAGA mates are. Just as well I don’t work for @americanair.bsky.social or similar #Trump lickspittles or I’d doubtless get fired for saying so

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

I cannot think of a democracy anywhere in the world where this sort of thing could happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

New from me today on @timatkinmw.bsky.social: #climatechange has just forced Château Lafleur to leave Pomerol. It heralds the climate-driven breakup of Europe’s appellation system and a brave new world for #wine timatkin.com/where-next-f...

My blog is out: The bug that eats #wine: The deadly vine pest phylloxera has been discovered on Tenerife. It’s left a long trail of destruction over the past 150 years Plus: what I've been drinking this week, feat Greek and Spanish white, Italian Refosco aviewfrommytable.substack.com/p/the-bug-th...

Christ, American wine writing is awful. Like most British wine writing only with shorter sentences. (Blah) writing, not journalism

*Unless it is Cameron being replaced by May, May being replaced by Johnson, Johnson being replaced by Truss, or Truss being replaced by Sunak. It is only if Starmer goes. Absolute. Charlton. Hypocrite. Imbecile.

New from me today on @timatkinmw.bsky.social: #climatechange has just forced Château Lafleur to leave Pomerol. It heralds the climate-driven breakup of Europe’s appellation system and a brave new world for #wine timatkin.com/where-next-f...

My blog is out: The bug that eats #wine: The deadly vine pest phylloxera has been discovered on Tenerife. It’s left a long trail of destruction over the past 150 years Plus: what I've been drinking this week, feat Greek and Spanish white, Italian Refosco aviewfrommytable.substack.com/p/the-bug-th...

There’s nothing lefty about telling some American-South African billionaire to piss off and mind his own bloody business in his own bloody country.

I’m old enough to remember when Conservative Party leaders believed in law and order.

Maybe she thinks the person replying “Go home” in her mentions is just going to “you work really hard. Time to leave the office“?

Pity he didn’t tell the electorate on the day, but there are limits to courage. Especially for cowardly Keir

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