Harry Wallop

I felt a bit of a fraud last night, surrounded by journalists who risk their lives in war zones. I wrote about bananas in a Coventry warehouse. But...many thanks to @FPALondon judges for giving me the Economics story of the year. A genuine honour #FPAawards23

Good news for gentleman’s relish fans: it’s not dead, Jeremy King has recreated it using an original Victorian recipe theguardian.com/food/2026/apr/…

🦠🦷I spat into a tube to find out more about my oral microbiome. Could it explain why my teeth are in such terrible shape... For @thetimes: thetimes.com/life-style/hea…

🦠Gut microbiomes have become *the* area of interest for doctors (and quacks on tick tock). 🦷🪥But how about oral microbiomes? Could the bacteria in our mouth be the key to finding out our likelihood of heart attacks or Alzheimer's? Or at least why our teeth rot...🧵1/2

Today’s sad news. Patum Peperium, aka Gentleman’s Relish, “the anchovy spread”, discontinued… @secondmentions @hwallop

@JulietBlaxland @secondmentions Oh no!! This is a disaster. (Even if I haven't bought some for at least 20yrs...)

@howard Yes, this is true. But they are customer facing roles. By definition, a remote office, is not customer facing. It is virtual. Anyway, many thanks for replying. I realise it's a bit of fun. I have sent you a DM on a more serious issue. Many thanks

@hwallop When you walk into an Apple Store, you're greeted by people in uniform. UPS drivers wear uniforms. When you step into the office of the future, you should be greeted by uniform

He assumes we're in Silicon Valley

I'm on a website of @roam, a remote office software provider. On the "our team" page, all the execs are dressed up like they are on the Star Trek Enterprise. Is this a new thing in Silicon Valley? Or is everyone at Roam a weirdo?

@rorysutherland Is that Bruce McLaren fact true?! About believing people should have defecated before arriving at their workplace...

I think we should bring back the pissoir. The notion of "fairness" requires that there be a sit-down loo everywhere there is a urinal. But we piss more often than we crap. (Bruce McLaren wanted to ban sit-down loos at McLaren HQ, arguing that efficient people should have pooed before they left home). But pissing simply requires a funnel, a length of hosepipe and a drain, and maybe a patch of dockleaves. A poo-loo requires extensive plumbing, light bulbs around a mirror and fancy unguents. Hence this false equality simply raises the bar for installing a toilet, and hence reduces the number of available places to piss. Where is this going? With dynamic, localised pricing, Scots would enjoy near-free energy some of the time. The argument against this is that it is "unfair". But denying something to someone because other people can't benefit equally is perhaps not a sensible definition of "fairness".

👌 @thetimes front page photo / headline juxtaposition

Trump Mar 10th “We won the War on day one”. Trump April 5th…

One of the great wonders of life: the astronauts on Artemis II can make video calls with perfectly clarity and reception from halfway to the moon yet try to make a call on an Avanti train on the West Coast mainline at Runcorn and you’ll be lucky to connect by Watford.

This week’s @thetimes biz column. AI is no match for a great PA — let’s bring them back thetimes.com/article/29d40a…

@rorysutherland I did not know this!

Compared to the distress I suffered from age 7 when BBC continuity announcers daily persisted in calling a cartoon "Boss Cat" when it was patently called "Top Cat", this is manageable. The reason, as I only discovered after decades of trauma, was that there was (briefly) a brand of catfood called Top Cat, and the BBC thought that merely uttering these words would constitute advertising.

Them: "What radicalised you..." Me:

Baked trout with hazelnuts & grapefruit. “You will be agreeably surprised by such a delightful contrast of flavours.”

In the 1970s, John Tovey was considered one of the best chefs in Britain. He was on TV, and his restaurant – Miller Howe in the Lake District – a gem. This is his “savoury cheese peach” from his 1979 cookbook. It is WILD

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Proof the Hugo Spritz (elderflower & prosecco) is the new Aperol Spritz – and spreading like Japanese knotweed across the pubs & supermarket shelves of UK. 1st, Wetherspoons stocks it. Now, @AldiUK has got in on act and selling canned version.

🧦 Wonderful letter in @thetimes about Jean-Michel Jarre, @ClaridgesHotel and some socks…