Are you a fan or do you view pâté as meatloaf dressed for dinner? What are your favourite recipes or tips? In pictures: how to make pâté de campagne There’s no great dearth of terrines, no dreadful famine of chicken liver parfait and, as far as I’m aware, the meatpaste market still thrives in its own quiet way, but where oh where are the great slablike pâtés of my youth?
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How to make pâté
Michael Steele under pressure to resign after saying US cannot win in Afghanistan, a ‘war of Obama’s choosing’ The leader of the Republican party in the US, Michael Steele, is under pressure to resign after he suggested that the US cannot win in Afghanistan and described the conflict as a “war of Obama’s choosing”. Steele’s comments highlighted divisions among those conservatives who support the war and others, particularly within the Tea Party movement, who object to the billions of tax dollars being spent in Afghanistan and Iraq. One leading Republican senator said the latest in a string of gaffes by Steele “could not have come at a worse time” for the party, prior to November’s midterm elections
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Republican leader faces calls to quit
Interim leader wins election despite last-minute surge in support for late Polish president’s twin brother A surge of sympathy after his twin brother was killed in a plane crash was not enough to propel Jaroslaw Kaczynski to the Polish presidency, as results from Sunday’s election gave a narrow victory to his centre-right rival Bronislaw Komorowski. Komorowski won the presidential vote by 53% of the votes to 47% for Kaczynski, according to final results released this afternoon. Komorowski was initially hesitant about declaring victory as the count swung back and forth
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Komorowski wins Polish election
What’s not leftwing about a loving union? Just note that happy marriages are built on stable homes and income, not vice versa I was prepared to give Iain Duncan Smith the benefit of the doubt when he emerged from his fact-finding mission to Glasgow’s Easterhouse estate in 2002 proclaiming his horror at the existence of entrenched poverty in 21st-century Britain.
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Lynsey Hanley
Team Cameron think the public like the sight of politicians co-operating, a sentiment that Labour’s attacks possibly miss David Cameron is at his first international summit, working the room, turning on the charm, establishing the personal rapport that is vital in high-level politics. Sitting in a room alone with seven other top leaders over lunch and dinner – albeit with officials listening in from outside the room – must be the moment you realise with total certainty that you are prime minister. He has also piled up four bilaterals, including a big one yesterday with Barack Obama, a man of real professorial intelligence, but he is also thinking domestic politics.
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Patrick Wintour
Child scavengers in Harare bear tragic witness to how little has changed in a society brutalised by Robert Mugabe’s cynical rule R otting food scraps picked out of the dirt and the bins of the backstreets of Harare are piled together in a slimy heap on the ground with torn cardboard as a serving plate. Elias, 15, squats and pushes both hands into the pile, scooping out a chunk of something pink. He gnaws on it, then shouts: “Dinner! Come and eat.” The other boys shush him
Revellers celebrate four decades of mud, sweat and beers amid blue skies and World Cup excitement From the booming bass from the main stage to the bursts of pop from the burger vans, music is everywhere at Glastonbury, a constant buzz that bleeds from one area to the next.
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Kylie and Radiohead get 40th birthday party started
Labour leadership contender to consult vice-chancellors and universities to produce a plan to replace tuition fees with a graduate tax Labour leadership contender Ed Miliband believes UK universities could be better funded if graduates were to pay extra tax rather than tuition fees.
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Ed Miliband suggests graduate tax
At times a byword for street violence and social problems, Manningham in Bradford has been chosen by English Heritage for the latest book in its Informed Conservation series A northern suburb whose name was a byword for street violence and social problems just 10 years ago has been praised today for its exuberant community life, and a landscape which stands in comparison to Bath. Manningham in Bradford, which suffered two serious disturbances after policing problems in 1995 and an extreme rightwing rally in 2001, has been chosen by English Heritage for the latest book in its Informed Conservation series of guides.
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Businesses to be consulted over proposals amid fears they could prove damaging to City The coalition government is rethinking plans to introduce an immigration cap – a flagship Conservative policy during the election campaign – amid fears that it could damage the economy, it was reported today. The home secretary, Theresa May, will begin consultation with businesses on the policy next week. Business leaders have warned that an immigration cap could make businesses less competitive and are hoping for a change of mind
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Coalition rethinks immigration cap