Chuka Umunna
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B.J. Epstein
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Dr Peter Bruggen
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Jack Butler
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Xenios Thrasyvoulou
: Is It Easier Than Ever to Start a Business?
There are many ways to resign: with dignity, anger, absence, humour... alcohol (all five if you want to go out in style). But with a cake?
If I hear something racist, sometimes when I pull the person up for it they'll say something like; "Ease up champ. Settle down sport. Back off tiger. It's only a little bit racist." Is that even possible? To be only a little bit racist?
This week the bump took command of the mothership. All things ego related receded into the background as I prepared for metamorphosis, from woman to 'mother' or 24 hour service station. Branded with a thick black line, a primal print of 'Keep Off' ran the length of my curvature.
There's one week left before I go home for the Easter holidays and I don't think I have ever been more relieved to return to a world where the most stressful decision I have to make is whether to bake a lemon drizzle or chocolate cream cake.
There's nothing more relaxing than baking... but only if it goes to plan. I once managed to make a pizza base that was so yeasty, lively and glutinous that it tried to eat the wooden spoon I mixed it with.
When you're older, family holidays take on an interesting dynamic. My parents and I live on opposite sides of the world, so we tend to plan trips that enable us to spend time together while also discovering a new city.
Don't get me started on the pink aisle. I'm a little bit rabid about the pink aisle. I'll bore you - suffice to say I don't do pink. If the Interloper is a girl, there will be a careful vetoing of toys reinforcing the idea a women's worth is dependent on her looks, or that catering to the needs of men is the only way forward (basically, all toys on the pink aisle).
When you're living in a strange place, it's all too easy to focus on what's missing and what's wrong. That's particularly true at this time of year, when the holidays are close and family feels far and the weather turns icy and it's pitch black at 4 p.m. like the place is run by goddam vampires.
With all hallows eve upon us, I have taken a festive diversion from my normal blog posts to feature my sister's fantastically morbid, and yet completely guilt free, Halloween coffin cake.
So, for the serious ones on the wagon, pregnant women, and people like me who shouldn't drink on medication, here are my top three non boozy alternatives to a good night out. Girly as these suggestions are, I have tried them to success out on men.
It's about owning your own destiny and DIY - doing-it-yourself.
Meg Rivers Home Baking is an excellent baking cookbook for beginners all the way up.
The world’s most expensive cupcake has been unveiled in a Dubai cake store – but does anyone love dessert enough to part with more than £600 for ...
It's been a little while since I did a foodie blog and as today I've been somewhat of a domestic goddess I thought I'd put that right. Today I made a...
A Swedish politician has been accused of racism and bigotry after she was pictured with a cake art installation meant to highlight the issue of female...
It must be hard being in the Liberal Democrats. Yes, I said it. I went there. But before you assume that I've donned a yellow tie, let me assure you that my favourite way of describing them is as not so much a political party, but more a terrible surprise party.
This week is shaping up to be a week of pretty ladies in tight dresses posing with or near cakes....
Tea With Bea - Bea Vo / Bea's of Bloomsbury Ryland Peters and Small - 2011 Photography: Kate Whitaker I spent six years living in London and while I ...
The Cake Store has turned its cake making genius to producing a sculpture of Her Majesty to kick start the Diamond Jubilee party celebrations this yea...
Tiler and Amanda Oakleaf, take a bow. After all, you've made many, many, many nerds very pleased today thanks to your lifesize stormtrooper cake - all...
A selection of cakes cunningly transformed as pots of seafood, bottles of beer and even hamburgers are confusing taste buds across the web. Compil...
I will do a lot of things to avoid dying of bowel cancer, and if one of those things is going to have to be sounding like a fussy eater in public, then so be it. Picky wins over dead. But the thing I hadn't quite realised is how wheat gets into everything. Like chips.
For the last month or so, life has been pretty frenetic; work has been cranking up again as the world and his wife comes back from holidays, I've been...
In early 2011 a mum of two from Leicester was knee deep in nappies and night feeds for her second son when she decided to do something for herself. Te...
