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
The internet guru on the death of newspapers, why paywall will fail and how the internet has brought out our creativity – and generosity If you are reading this article on a printed copy of the Guardian, what you have in your hand will, just 15 years from now, look as arcane as a Western Union telegram does today. In less than 50 years, according to Clay Shirky , it won’t exist at all. The reason, he says, is very simple, and very obvious: if you are 25 or younger, you’re probably already reading this on your computer screen
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Clay Shirky: ‘Paywall will fail’
Why must I live in such taxing times? God I hate newspapers. All those “what the budget will mean for you” pieces, if you’re old, unemployed or whatever, and Daddy says not one of them shows what Georgie’s plans mean for a struggling landowner in Scunthorpe and the effect on pig prices.
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Mrs Cameron’s diary
After a brief spell in prison for stealing 400 balloons, 19-year-old Alfie Brooks is determined not to go back. But with no job, no home and no qualifications, what are the chances of turning his life around? Alfie Brooks describes himself as a conceptual artist
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‘I don’t want to live on the dole’
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
The message is that women are past it while girls are dynamic A decisive victory for the girls at the weekend, when they captured the top five slots in the Sunday Times best-selling paperback fiction list.
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‘Girl’ book titles demean women
From Peter Pan to James Bond, via The Man in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and JG Ballard’s alter ego, Jim, Tony Parsons chooses his favourite literary troubled males Tony Parsons’ new novel, Men From The Boys, is the final instalment of his Harry Silver trilogy, which began with Man and Boy, and developed in Man and Wife. In it, he returns to the question of what it means to be a man in contemporary Britain, which has underpinned all three of the novels.
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Top 10 troubled males in fiction
Campaign by UK Youth Climate Coalition aims to keep global warming at the top of the political agenda Climate advocates suffered a painful defeat in Copenhagen , and energy among campaigners has been at an all-time low. But 200 new MPs and a new government bring a new opportunity
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Young climate activists adopt an MP
Waves are one of nature’s most spectacular – and familiar – forces, but how much do we really know about them? What exactly is an ocean wave? You may think the answer is obvious: it is a moving mound of water.
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Here come the waves
In a city devastated under Margaret Thatcher and rebuilt under Blair and Brown, David Cameron’s promise of a smaller state sounds like a threat of mass job cuts Tony Bone slams on the brakes of his silver Vauxhall. “Look at that sculpture,” he says, tipping his head towards a giant hand protruding from the ground in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Nervous north waits for funding axe