Rock band frontman blasts music festival for canceling show for 'political reasons'
© Kenny Holston/The New York Times
© Alain Jocard/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
© Antonio Masiello/Getty Images
Updates from Wednesday’s 161km stage to Valence
“We are really looking forward,” Milan said before today’s stage. “It’s one of the most important, yes [in the points classification].
Matt White, Luke Rowe and Robbie McEwen are the pundits working with the presenter Orla Chennaoui on TNT Sports.
Continue reading...© Photograph: Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP
© Photograph: Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP
© Photograph: Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP
The public shaming won’t bring real justice. But it fulfills a fantasy of accountability we rarely experience in our own lives
It wasn’t just that a man got caught cheating on his wife. It was that he did it in public. With the whole stadium watching. With Chris Martin, unknowingly, teeing it up. With a camera zooming in at the exact wrong – or maybe karmically perfect – moment. The CEO. The HR director. The affair. The panic. The humiliation. All of it caught, dissected and shared a million times over.
We didn’t watch that video because we love Coldplay (though, don’t we?). We didn’t watch just for the scandal. We watched because – despite our small steps toward enlightenment – we’re all starving for the satisfaction of seeing someone finally get what they deserve.
Continue reading...© Composite: TikTok
© Composite: TikTok
© Composite: TikTok
Scarpaccia is a crunchy polenta flatbread that makes clever use of seasonal courgettes and other summery toppings
Anyone who has ever grown courgettes will know that, come peak season, you have to get inventive with the abundance and come up with new ways to use them before they turn to marrows or perish and melt back into the soil. One fabulous way to cook up a glut is scarpaccia, an Italian classic that’s similar to farinata and a distant cousin of pizza. Thinly sliced courgettes are degorged by tossing them in sea salt to extract their juices, then, true to Italian thrift, the flavourful liquid is used to make a batter that’s then reunited with the courgettes before baking into a thin, crisp slice.
Continue reading...© Photograph: Tom Hunt/The Guardian
© Photograph: Tom Hunt/The Guardian
© Photograph: Tom Hunt/The Guardian