Author: Liam Porter

Sausages are more than the sum of their parts – a blend of tradition, technique, ethics and flavour. I’ve always preferred proper butcher’s sausages, featuring hog casings filled with well-seasoned pork shoulder, then linked and set (I used to love making them with butcher Ray Smith on River Cottage’s regular Pig in a Day courses). Farmer’s markets and butchers are the best places to find them, but supermarkets now have a wide range, too.The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.Texture is key: a good sausage should have bite…

Seven-time champion Novak Djokovic talks about the importance of the ball toss as the Serbian scored his best ever serving performance in his second-round win over Dan Evans at Wimbledon.WATCH MORE: Why Sabalenka is the biggest risk-taker in tennisWatch live coverage from every court on BBC iPlayer.Available to UK users only.

Three Israeli attacks hit Bint Jbeil, Shebaa and Chaqra.Israel has carried out four drone attacks on towns in southern Lebanon, resulting in a death and several injured, in the latest wave of near-daily Israeli violations of the November ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah. An “Israeli enemy drone attack on a vehicle” in the Saf al-Hawa area in the city of Bint Jbeil “killed one person and wounded two others”, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said in a statement on Saturday carried by the official National News Agency (NNA), noting the toll was expected to rise. A second…

The culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has demanded to know why no one at the BBC has lost their job over the airing of a documentary on Gaza that featured the son of a Hamas official.A review looking into the broacast of Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone is reportedly due to be published next week. The programme first aired in February, but was pulled by the broadcaster after the link between its 13-year-old narrator and Hamas emerged.“I have been very clear that people must be held accountable for the decisions that were taken,” Nandy told the Times on Saturday. “I…

A new change to buy now, pay later loans means borrowers’ credit scores may see a change, which has worried some users of the loans.“I have a feeling that I’m just not going to have as much access to spending power and zero or really low APR rates,” said Nicole Nitta, a 31-year-old Las Vegas resident, who uses BNPL and shared that she already does not have great credit.Fico, the credit scoring company used by most US lenders, announced on 23 June that they would include BNPL loans, which play “an increasingly important role in consumers’ financial lives”, to help…

In the last week, social media users have shared dozens of stories about encounters with Soham Parekh, a software engineer who seems to have been simultaneously working at multiple Silicon Valley startups — unbeknownst to the companies — for the last several years. But who is Parekh, how did he pull off his career as a serial moonlighter, and why can’t Silicon Valley get enough of him? Origins of virality The saga all started when Suhail Doshi — CEO of image generation startup Playground AI — shared a post Tuesday on X that began: “PSA: there’s a guy named Soham…

While accepting the President’s Award during the opening night of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival on Friday, actor Peter Sarsgaard spoke out on the current political division in the U.S., stating: “As my country retreats from its global responsibilities and tries to go it alone, it is also being divided into factions from within, factions of politics, gender, sexuality, race, Jews split over the war. But when there’s a common enemy, there is no going it alone. Enemies are the forces that divide us, that individuate us. We all know who they are.” Asked by Variety…

Even before Marie Lueder’s show started, we were treated to a show. In the cavernous mid-century grandeur of the Palais am Funkturm, Lueder had created a set of three ga-ga-gargantuan silver inflatable Venus flytraps by Danish artist Esben Weile Kjaer, menacing with their huge vicious teeth, but also a little cartoon-like and playful: It was the Little Berlin Shop of Horrors brought to life, one day only, limited engagement. Meanwhile, writhing around in the shadow of these enormous inflatables was a young woman, clad in a brown stocking Lueder dress with selvedge seams and Ugg slippers, before collapsing and being…

The life of a social media creator can be high in glamour and status. The well-paid endorsement deals, the online followers and proximity to the celebrity establishment are all perks of the industry.But one hidden cost will be familiar to anyone coping with the 21st-century economy: burnout. The Guardian has spoken to five creators with a combined audience of millions who have all experienced degrees of workplace stress or fatigue.“There’s no off button in this job,” says Melanie Murphy, 35, who has been a social media creator since 2013. “The algorithms never stop. You can’t pause the internet because you…

SILVIS, Ill. (AP) — Doug Ghim holed out from the fairway for eagle for the second straight day, sending him to a 3-under 68 and a one-shot lead Friday in the John Deere Classic, his first 36-hole lead in his six years on the PGA Tour.Defending champion Davis Thompson (63) and Max Homa (68) were among the five players within one shot of the lead going into the weekend.The starting times have been moved up Saturday because of rain in the forecast. Trios will be going off early with primary end-of-round coverage airing from 1-4 p.m. on CBS, Paramount+, CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports…