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      King Charles to lay wreath and lead nation in Remembrance Sunday silence

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November, 2024

    Prince and Princess of Wales will join the king and senior politicians to remember those who have died in conflict

    King Charles will lay wreaths at the Cenotaph and lead the nation in a two-minute silence at 11am to remember the dead who gave their lives in two world wars as well as those who have died in other conflicts involving British and Commonwealth forces.

    The Prince and Princess of Wales will join the king and senior politicians for the national service of remembrance at the Cenotaph to honour all those killed.

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      Joseph’s Brasserie, London: ‘Let’s celebrate’ – restaurant review

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November, 2024

    With its smoky flavours and heady scents, this new west London restaurant showcases the best of Lebanese food

    Joseph’s Brasserie, 221 Kensington High Street, London W8 6SG (020 3337 9356; josephsbrasserie.co.uk ). Wraps from £9; mezze £8.50 – £16; main courses £16.25 – £26.50; desserts £8.50. Wines from £26 a bottle

    In one corner of the lengthy menu at Joseph’s Brasserie, a lovely new Lebanese restaurant in London’s Kensington, is a description which may give some people pause. It’s listed under Signature Dishes and begins “Tender lamb intestines stuffed with a savoury mixture of rice…” The sweet word “tender”, used for kisses and caresses, has to do an awful lot of heavy lifting there, when it’s shepherding the word “intestines” into view. It’s just too duodenal, isn’t it? Too redolent of lunch on the way out of the body as waste, rather than on the way in as pleasure.

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      Wines to match autumn’s earthy forest foods

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November, 2024 • 1 minute

    Whether you’re foraging chestnuts, mushrooms or truffles, there is a perfect wine accompaniment

    Vilarnau Chestnut-Aged Xarel·lo, Penedès, Spain 2018 (£20, ocado.com ) Chestnuts are a cheap and moreish autumn-into-winter delight that are all the better (and cheaper) for being one of the few foods I’ve managed to successfully forage. Versatile too: whether they’ve been roasted in a pan or on the proverbial open fire, they can be served simply with a sprinkling of salt, act as a soft, sweetly earthy contrast to brassica bitterness (sprouts or cavolo nero) or complement to umami mushrooms (risotto or pasta), or simmered in milk and herbs and pulped into a paste to go with roast bird or to spread on toast. They also have a long and historic connection with wine, since the wood of the chestnut tree was often favoured by barrel-makers who couldn’t easily get their hands on oak, especially in the Mediterranean. The practice is enjoying something of a revival, and what better wine to sip with the tree’s fruit than a golden, hazy-soft, nuts-and-apricot-scented chestnut barrel-aged dry white from cava county in Penedès in Catalonia?

    Extra Special Chilean Pinot Noir, Leyda Valley, Chile 2023 (£8, Asda ) Barrel-aged whites using the more conventional vessels made from oak species Quercus alba, Quercus sessilis and Quercus robur are one of my choices to drink with that other much-foraged (although very much not by cowardly, risk-averse me) seasonal food: mushrooms. There’s something about the texture (ample, creamy, silky) and the flavours (which can have a decidedly savoury, almost mushroomy edge) of oak-influenced whites such as the suavely balanced Rustenberg Chardonnay, Stellenbosch, South Africa 2022 (reduced to £12.99 from £15.99 until Tuesday, Waitrose ) that goes so well with the comforting creaminess of a mushroom risotto. For reds, meanwhile, the go-to grape is pinot noir, which also has some of the slippery-silky feel and forest-floor earthiness of the fungus. Chile has some of the most convincing budget versions of this tricky-to-grow grape, with Asda’s own-label erring towards light and bright berry compote with just a hint of beetroot in flavour.

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      Donald Trump embodies a collective madness in America

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November, 2024

    Why are so many voters wide open to his set outlandish beliefs?

    Simon Tisdall has hit the nail on the head in writing that if Donald Trump were merely a private individual, his current behaviour and manner of speech would be acknowledged as simply a result of ageing, and a loss of inhibitions (“ Donald Trump is a superspreader of a craziness that has split the United States in two ”, Comment).

    However, as Tisdall says, such behaviour is not acceptable in an individual who is asking the American people to elect them as a leader on the world stage.

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      TV tonight: the final part of Hilary Mantel’s beloved Tudor trilogy

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November, 2024

    Mark Rylance returns in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. Plus: an essential documentary about what happened after the 7/7 bombings. Here’s what to watch this evening

    Sunday, 9pm, BBC One

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      Cop29 could change the financial climate for the world’s wealthy polluters

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November, 2024

    This week’s summit will focus on paying for the costs of global heating – and much more money is needed

    About 50,000 government officials, policymakers, investors and campaigners will gather in Azerbaijan this week in the hope of answering a trillion-dollar question: how much money should go each year to helping developing countries cope with climate-related costs?

    The aim of the UN’s Cop29 climate talks in Baku, which is being called the “climate finance Cop”, is to establish a new annual climate financing target to replace the current $100bn pledge, set in 2009, which expires at the end of this year. There is one clear consensus already: the existing climate finance available to developing countries is nowhere near enough to withstand worsening climate impacts. The ambition is too low, and in 15 years the annual target has been met in full only once, in 2022.

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      In for the chill: five useful tips to help you stay fit in the winter

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November, 2024

    As the nights draw in and temperatures drop, it’s tempting to abandon outdoor exercise. But as experts reveal, there are ways to beat the freeze and get into even better shape

    “When it’s cold outside I find a quick ice bath sorts me out. It’s so cold that the outside conditions feel ‘warm’. It resets my resilience bar.” The words of extreme endurance athlete Sean Conway , who has run in temperatures as low as -10C. But what about more palatable ways to cope with the cold? And are there actually benefits of exercising in the cold?

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      Plans for a new national park in Wales met with opposition from local residents

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November, 2024

    A proposal to protect part of rural Wales has sparked a furious debate over who the countryside is for

    Plans to create a new Welsh national park stretching from the dunes of north-east Wales to the wild Berwyn mountains and the peaceful, wooded slopes of Lake Vyrnwy further south have captured the imagination of many ramblers, cyclists and other outdoor lovers.

    But the Welsh government’s proposals to improve access to nature have been dismissed by an opposition group as creating “a play area for townies”, sparking a furious debate about who the countryside is for.

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      Deaf and mute siblings among scores killed by Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza – report

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 10 November, 2024

    A resident of the Lebanese city of Tyre told Associated Press three disabled sisters and their two brothers were killed in Israeli strike

    Five Lebanese siblings, three of whom were deaf and mute, and two Palestinian journalists who were brother and sister were among the scores of people killed by Israeli strikes on Lebanon and Gaza in the previous 24 hours, local authorities and media reported on Saturday.

    At least 40 people were killed in strikes on Lebanon including seven in the port city of Tyre late on Friday, the health ministry said.

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