Soups to conquer: Sunshine Soup By Clodagh Mckenna Published: 00:02 GMT, 3 January 2021 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 3 January 2021 This is a ray of sunshine in a bowl, bursting with flavours and textures. Double or treble this recipe – it will keep in the fridge for a week or in the freezer for … Read more
Food: Soups to conquer By Clodagh Mckenna Published: 00:02 GMT, 3 January 2021 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 3 January 2021 Warming, comforting, nourishing – chef Clodagh McKenna’s recipes are like a hug in a bowl. Just add a hunk of bread Spiced Butternut Squash & Coconut Soup with Pumpkin Seed Bread Celeriac Soup with Hazelnut … Read more
Chilling photographs showing the Germans preparing to invade Britain during the Second World War have emerged for the first time. The black and white images show the fleet of armoured landing craft Adolf Hitler had prepared in readiness for a seaborne invasion in 1940. Taken in the English Channel during sea trials, one snap clearly … Read more
Thank goodness Esther McVey isn’t the paranoid type, prone to worrying about her popularity. The Tory MP got married last Saturday, but when she first realised she was going to have to cull her wedding guest list, to comply with Covid rules, she worried about how to break the news to her friends. She needn’t … Read more
As relations between the West and China plummet to new depths, we can at least take comfort from the fact that many of our leading academic institutions are still enjoying a healthy collaboration with their Chinese equivalents. Or can we? At times of conflict, the very word ‘collaboration’ has unfortunate connotations. An investigation by the … Read more
So you are struggling. Welcome to the club. We all are. If you are not a bit stressed, you are definitely bucking the trend. Now we are tentatively coming out of lockdown, it is fine to be feeling on edge, or as though you can’t always cope. For me, this crisis has all the characteristics … Read more