Yesterday at Abergavenny Food Festival

🎵 My Top weekly artists: Glenn Gould (32), Walter, Columbia SO (18), Dry Cleaning (10) & Solti, LPO, Alicia de Larrocha (4) via tweekly.fm

Afternoon, #Caturday

Linkblog 🔗: Ian McEwan’s long look back

British politics does not offer much more cause for optimism. Liz Truss becoming prime minister is “such a disaster”, he says. “She’s intellectually so vapid. I think her world-view is so tiny, so shrivelled, so ungenerous, so dry… Or maybe she’s just a highly ambitious politician who’s playing a very cynical game.” He sees an opportunity for Keir Starmer’s Labour – “I admire him in many ways” – but for McEwan, an ardent Remainer who wrote a satirical novella, The Cockroach, about Brexit, the Labour leader remains “tied to the Tories” until he “admits Brexit was a colossal error”.

Linkblog 🔗: Jean-Luc Godard: a genius who tore up rule book without troubling to read it

One of my favourite beers: Timothy Taylor’s Landlord, at The Gloucester Old Spot, Bristol 🍺

Linkblog 🔗: There’s more to spritz than Aperol

Baked polenta with melted gorgonzola – Polenta Pasticciata con Gorgonzola

I’ve been stirring polenta for nearly 40 minutes. My arm is aching.

🎵 My Top weekly artists: Evgeny Kissin (19), Lou Reed (14), Ezra Furman (13), Dry Cleaning (10) & Jenny Hval (10) via tweekly.fm