Allendale, Northumberland: My late-flowering poppies have lit up the garden, and it’s not only me who’s taken an interestThe opium poppies have now set seed, their leaves rattling like crisp packets, the vents beneath their pod lids open for the seeds to be scattered. Dotted throughout my flower borders, adding…

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A chocolate cake inspired by the Sacher hotel in Vienna’s trademark creation and emulated by a local Roman pasticceriaThis column began two years ago, almost to the day, when I made a birthday cake for a friend. “I don’t mind,” was her reply when I first asked what sort of cake she would like. But then, a few…

10 September 1966: The folk songs are not held at arm’s length but are sung with an intensity that shocks and forces them into lifeOn stage they look tastefully but conventionally mod. Bright gaudy PVC jackets, predictable haircuts, and predictable northern accents. At first sight they could quite easily pass for…

Exclusive: Claimants could trade part of payment for specialist equipment, services or training under proposalSome disabled people could receive “in kind” support rather than just cash payments under a radical overhaul of the personal independence payment (Pip) proposed by official government advisers, the…

Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentimentAndy Burnham must overhaul Shabana Mahmood’s migration reforms or risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment, the TUC general secretary, Paul Nowak, has warned.Speaking ahead of the…

Climate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gainsPinch yourself, it’s happening again. Here is a Labour government spending a vast amount of political capital to earn tiny material gains while risking huge political losses. It…

Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?Every now and then the Thursday quiz stares broodingly out of a rain-streaked window, adopts an immaculate cheekbone-highlighting pose and hums a bit of David Sylvian. The sun shines high above, the “birbs”…

The International Atomic Energy Agency voices ‘serious concerns’ over expansion of Yongbyon facility to enrich uraniumThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has voiced “serious concern” over evidence that North Korea has built a facility capable of enriching weapons-grade uranium to bolster its nuclear…