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Been experimenting quite a lot in the kitchen of late due to my low cholesterol diet. If I am entirely honest the results have been decided mixed, but last night we had one in the “win” column and I thought I’d publish it here (as much so I don’t forget how I did it as thinking my readers might be interested!).
So I wanted something spicy, and Sugar Snap Peas were on offer in Morrisons and this is what I came up with.
Ingredients
300g Diced Chicken
Continue reading Harissa Chicken with Spiced Cous Cous
This item was published first on LaboutList at the following URL
http://www.labourlist.org/there-is-nothing-wrong-with-discrimination
Yesterday I read with interest Ian Silvera’s LabourList post “How to get more women and ethnic minorities into politics: the sober way”.
Ian started by saying “Positive discrimination is oxymoronic”. And for me this is the essence of where both Ian’s article, and argument, goes wrong. Let’s be clear about this – there is nothing necessarily wrong with discrimination. That might seem an odd thing for a Labour activist to say but it is true.
Our society discriminates all the time, with
Continue reading There is nothing wrong with discrimination.
 I have not posted an recipes here at Lunchtime Legend since the end of Vegtember. But I recently discovered my Cholesterol levels were a bit high (and I also realised I was becoming a big fat pig!) so have embarked on a low cholesterol diet. Thinking differently about cooking always sparks my muse a little and therefore I am on one at the moment so regular readers might see a few of these.
In my RSS feed James Ramsden’s new post about a Mackerel, Oyster and Wasabi roll (and Jeez
Continue reading Warm mackerel, wild rice and roasted vegetable salad
 Well for a variety of reasons Lunchtime Legend has been gathering dust for the last few weeks so I thought it was about time I posted something here!
Plymouth Argyle
And the topic is going to be one of my familiar tropes, football democracy. On Saturday I received my membership card for the Argyle Fans Trust. Around the same time as the news was breaking that the players and staff had once again not been paid by the club.
Whilst it had started to look like the club was moving in the
Continue reading Argyle Fans Trust.
Supporting a lower league side means that as a top flight neutral you can engage without fear of reprisals mercilessly joshing your compadre’s who have “second teams” (often first teams TBH) in the top flight. I have an unusually large number of Liverpool supporting pals, which is a little odd given the geographical distance between Plymouth and Liverpool. However I am sure they all have bona fida reasons for supporting Liverpool, their milkmans sisters cat once went to Merseyside or something and it has nothing to do with Liverpool being the dominant force when we were growing
Continue reading Liverpool, Spurs and the Europa League.
 Yesterday i’ll have to admit I was utterly, utterly disconsolate. In truth I can’t remember being that down since England went out on penalties in Euro 2004. I was utterly deflated, and I just couldnt see any prospects of things ever getting better in politics. It was a difficult evening But luckily for me I have managed to bounce back, and this morning I feel much more like more normal effervescent self! And I think what would make me feel better is a quick blog on yesterday. So here are a
Continue reading A few reflections on the results yesterday.
I have today had a piece published on LabourList.org.
You can read it here:-
http://www.labourlist.org/time-for-labour-to-wake-up
Whatever we all think about politics I am sure one thing that we can all agree on is that things have not been all that peachy in respect of our relationship as ordinary people with our MPs in Westminster. Far too often our politicians seem distant from ordinary voters, preferring to listen bankers, and lobbyists in Westminster than the likes of us.
My Union is the CWU, and many CWU members who have tried to contact our MPs over the last few years about the various government wheezes to privatise
Continue reading Unions should say YES to AV.
I recently had an interesting three-way “twitchat” with some twitter pals (hat tip to @penners_ @saxbend and @ishbroken) about the new series of Doctor Who and whether or not it was any good. I am a massive Who fan and have been for as long as I can remember. What surprised me though was that my absolute adoration for the direction the series is taking under the oversight of Stephen Moffat isn’t shared by all…. horses for courses I suppose.
Despite that though, I for one am a massive fan of
Continue reading Why I love Stephen Moffat’s Dr Who.
” Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”
Dennis from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”
Can’t think why Royalty is on my mind at the moment, they seem to be keeping an unusually low profile of late hardly bothering the newspapers or Television in the slightest…. Oh wait a minute
Continue reading Royalty, Republicanism and Constitutions.
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