Sang-Hwa Lee

Kimchi is perfect with a Sunday roast

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Kimchi: a traditional Korean dish made with salted, fermented vegetables. Records indicate it is at least 2,000 years old, though the modern kimchi as we would recognise it - napa cabbage generously coated with a thick paste of garlic, ginger, gochugaru chilli flakes, and fish sauce - only became widespread in the late 19th century. When it comes to food, we all find ourselves craving the familiar, unadulterated tastes of childhood The importance of kimchi to Korean national identity and culture is hard to overstate. Many Koreans eat kimchi every day, if not at every meal. During the Vietnam War, South Korea’s President Park personally implored Lyndon Johnson to help provide kimchi rations to demoralised Korean soldiers at the front.

How my choir is fighting back against Britain’s decline

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In certain corners of the Westminster village, what was once regarded as the lunatic ravings of Dominic Cummings have begun to seep into the mainstream. Britain is broken, so echo pubs up and down Whitehall, because a system that rewards failure, blocks talent, and invites venality has produced a Parliament of media-obsessed show ponies and a civil service where domain expertise hinders advancement. If today’s Westminster is filled with too many amateurish professionals, the original ideal has not yet been extinguished elsewhere One upshot has been the rise of a quasi-Bolshevik start-up culture imbuing nerdy topics like system design, tech and AI, nuclear, planning and infrastructure reform with an unprecedented sexiness in Wonkland.