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The Mail have now published a piece by Hitchens, discussing the way the OPCW report was edited to produce a misleading impression that chlorine gas was used. It includes the text of an internal email from OPCW staff protesting about the way the findings of staff investigating the incident were misrepresented.

I coexist happily with vegans. They don't criticise me, I make vegan food for them (and me), it's all good. I don't know any of the aggressive, preachy ones, though. As far as I know. I will be doing the Green Party xmas buffet for the local councillors, who invite the other parties to come along for a drink. It will all be vegan or veggie. I shall include lentils, because the other parties will expect that we will have lentils, as we are Greens, and for no other reason. I may well have a kebab after. Please don't judge ne.

You can get dried white beans anywhere, including Sainsbury's. I just happened to get them from this shop. Tinned chipotles are harder. I have a great Spanish/Mexican shop locally, otherwise online may be easier. I hear dried chipotles were banned a coupe of years ago, some health scare or orher, but tinned are ok.

So twitter says (and I haven't researched it myself) that he's a South African who came here in the 80s, when the most objectionable racists were running away from the changes they could see coming, and that he's a tory candidate for some office or other, not MP. Whether that is true or not, he's clearly a tory supporter who has been selected in contravention of the BBC policy and procedure. How? There has been discussion previously about how the QT audience is selected, and the influence of a very right wing producer in that. This adds to that existing concern.

Edinburgh. But they're in most towns now, surely? Sometimes not very well advertised...or shops selling unlikely combinations like Asian/African/Caribbean.

But also ask for some other bones, not just use what comes with your purchase. Beef bones are the most useful. Beef stock, frozen in ice cube bags, is great to have on hand. Drop some cubes into bolognaise sauce. Soften some onions and garlic, add seasoning and a touch of vinegar, a bit of wine and some stock cubes, a good base for a sauce that you can tweak in many directions. Adds another level to your cooking. Beef stock in any sauce for steak is great. And soup, of course. Pork bones are good for stock for Chinese food. Chicken is easy to come by, and I find I don't use as much lamb stock as I can make with the lamb I buy. Mainly good for lamb tagines, but would work well with shepherd's pie, which isn't something I ever make, for no particular reason.

Always worth supporting your local butcher. Don't forget to ask for bones whenever you shop there, to make stock for the freezer.

Beans. Got some dried white beans from the local med/north african shop, bigger than what I would call haricots and smaller than cannelini. Soaked overnight, drained, rinsed, cooked. About £1 worth. Made a spicy tomato sauce by softening onions and (later) garlic, adding salt, pepper, dried oregano, sweet and hot paprika, tomato puree, a tin of tomatoes, and about a thitd of a tin of chipotle chillis in adobe sauce. About another £1.50. Half that if you use dried chillis instead of chipotle. Added the drained cooked beans to the sauce. Two things so far: Breakfast of toasted granary bread with butter, covered in spicy beans with poached egg on top. Very filling. Dinner of cumberland sausages with spicy beans, and steamed french beans. Cheap, simple, tasty, and still some left. You could use tinned cooked beans to save a bit of time, the quantity I made would probably cost £4 in total rather than about £2.50.

This is editing to influence the perception of viewers politically, by suppressing the disbelief and contempt which greeted Johnson's words. This must be in breach of their charter, and internal procedural guidance.

Is that because of the restraining order?

Sadly, I don't think you can.

Hostile environment, continued. Windrush victim forced to sleep in London bin shed

This does not appear to be a parody account. She describes herself as a Conservative political communications and social media consultant. I can't tell if this claim about tax is a deliberate lie, or if she really is as staggeringly stupid as she seems.

Johnson explains that a series of offensive terms were not meant to give offence. They were taken out of context and were made to seem offensive (ie someone else made them seem so). Well, he's certainly convinced me, he sounds sincere.

If I die of asphyxiation, I want them to play "Blue".

What we often do is plan and prepare a non-traditional meal for christmas, and pop down the shops about 4.30 on christmas eve. Geese and turkeys that were priced at £50 or more will be going for a lot less. Last year we got a goose for something like a tenner, can't recall exactly. Rendering the fat gave 3 or 4 jars which will last a year and would cost more than the goose if you bought it in tins, carcasse for stock and soup, one meal from the breasts and another from the legs. And a risotto if you pick the carcasse after you've made stock. Pretty good value, just from shifting your purchase to a different point in time. Can't guarantee there will be bargains though, it all depends what everyone else has done in relation to what the buyers predicted they would do. But I don't think I would ever again pay the asking price for a christmas bird, that's a premium price for eating it at one specific point in the calendar, which just seems mad.

Love it.

Speaking as someone who can, I wouldn't.

Can we now call her Swansong?

(From Mark ne-francois-pas twitter)