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Got a surfeit of fennel from the market so I'm doing a couple of dishes from the Silver Spoon, a cream of fennel soup with dill and smoked salmon, and a thing that's rather dramatically called "Devil's Fennel" but is basically anchovies and fennel in a mustardy lemony reduction. I shall report back.

Oh look, it's you, what a surprise.

That too. Still, and it ties in with Stevie's blog post from yesterday, I'm always surprised at the extent to which we allow our press to actively hate the country and try to sabotage it.

It's funny we should have been saying that hours before the Sun decided to run with this ludicrous Hodgson "racism" story. Makes you wonder who the dressing room leak was - Lampard trying to stick up for Uncle Harry?

That's quite a range

Crispy fried won ton.

Beat me to it.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/greggdd69/14-cardboard-boxes-that-look-like-david-cameron-5v0w

Ee, I've got some in the cupboard, soon I may be king.

They're pretty pleased too: http://radiosarajevo.ba/novost/128545/pogledajte-kako-su-sarajlije-proslavile-vedin-pogodak-video

Aye, loving the time zone thing. Fond memories of 1994.

Aye.

Strange they still haven't corrected the "second Brazilian import" mistake, mind. Gene should have been all over them for that.

Bet you they won't.

There's only one that might, since they're the ones who can't shift the blame elsewhere. I doubt even they're that desperate, though.

Pie

And UKIP will get no MPs, just like they were always going to anyway, and the country can delight in another coalition of the unwilling. Change, you say?

They won't be, though. They might be talked about a lot in the build-up, but come the crunch, they'll be secondary to how normal people actually think and vote.

Told you. Next 6th-on-list UKIP MEP candidate for the North-East, nailed on.

I didn't - you'll be UKIP before long.

Although I suppose it's mildly ironic that my plan in the event of a UK withdrawal from the EU is to emigrate immediately.

If there were a compelling net benefit to not allowing that immigration to happen, we'd have long since elected a party that would stop it, reactionary sorts that we are. Turns out they all know the real story beneath the headline-friendly soundbites they're happy to issue every so often, hence never actually acting on them.