Helping brilliant chefs open great restaurants. Merlin at Osip in Somerset, and Stevie at Town and Luke at Motorino in London. Instagram @DowneyJD

London
Joined April 2011
Thanks for confirming that there's nothing wrong with being gay. 🙄
This is probably the single best Two minute clip I have seen in a long time. Anderson Cooper, who is gay, making fun of how gay Donald Trump is. And I will repeat. There’s nothing wrong with being gay. The problem is hypocrisy.
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You’re a billionaire oligarch terrified of a democracy you can’t control. You bought a social media platform, turned it into a propaganda sewer, and now have the audacity to lecture Americans about democracy while attacking the idea of giving millions of citizens equal representation. You don’t fear the end of democracy. You fear a democracy you can’t buy, manipulate, or control. Democracy isn’t dying because more Americans might get a voice. It’s threatened by arrogant billionaires who think their bank accounts entitle them to a louder one. The hypocrisy is fucking staggering.
This is literally their plan to end democracy in America
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There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.
There is something deeply wrong with Talarico
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There is something deeply wrong with Talarico
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Anthropic plans to give each kid in America portion of its $80B in losses.
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1. Kids set up a new company that becomes the marketing agency for the family business. 2. The marketing agency collects a fee that dramatically reduces the profit in the parents company. 3. The marketing agency acquires a minority stake with savage voting rights. 4. Independent valuation shows that this structure makes the business almost worthless. 5. The marketing company acquires the remaining shares. Success in the UK is now 50% being excellent at what you do and 50% avoiding the governments latest scheme to derail the success and independence of your family.
🚨 NEW: John Healey is considering introducing income tax on parents who pass their business down to their children in the Budget [@Telegraph]
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8 months later and this is still the case. So many bad meals and experiences in restaurants where that is what they do.
Replying to @DowneyJD
Influencer raved about disappointments are no surprise - who cares what '[insert name] foodie/eats/london/life' thinks - but seeing London and national restaurant critics praising the most mid places is a new trend I don't understand. Whappening? 🤷‍♂️
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Taking on all the big challenges. What a legend. 🙄
You know that feeling when you book a flight for 50 quid and somehow it ends up costing 100? Getting seats together, correcting a typo, another charge here and there, it all adds up. When the cost of living is already squeezing people, those endless extras can feel relentless. So we're changing the rules for you. Parents won't need to pay a penny extra just to sit next to their own children. You'll be able to fix any name errors on your booking free of charge. And because the last thing you want once you're on the plane is more stress, we're working with the industry to make sure that disruptive passengers who have been banned from one airline can be banned from flying with other airlines too. I know holidays are expensive and these are small things, but hopefully they'll make your trip just that little bit cheaper and easier. That's exactly the kind of thing I want this government to keep on fixing.
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AI Andy - Claude suggest ways I can carpet bomb social media with token, meaningless changes to things that don't matter but that make me look like I'm doing stuff, and then draft the posts to announce these in a folksy, friendly voice to reinforce the northern-normal thing. 🤓
I know people are worried about fuel prices. And I get it. You get to the pump, watch the numbers climb, and wonder why it's costing so much more than it used to.   The reality is that global events are pushing up costs, and families here at home are feeling the impact.   But I won't accept that there's nothing I can do to help.   That's why from today, you'll be able to see petrol and diesel prices on Google Maps, compare nearby stations and find the cheapest option before you fill up.   It's a small change, but if there's a practical way to help people keep more money in their pocket, I'll do it.
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Incredible first day for new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia
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Anthropic is offering a 145k salary for a personal assistant in London. Responsibilities include: "Scheduling and managing calendars for leader(s) and their organization" "Building and maintaining organizational systems for tracking and managing inbound requests" "Managing the leader's inbox and communications with precise attention to detail" "Handling travel logistics" Somebody should really build some sort of tech tool that can handle this stuff autonomously.
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As often happens in this administration, a carefully-crafted justification is undone when Trump simply blurts out the truth on live TV. Rubio’s written and video statements said ICC sanctions were to protect Americans — no mention of Israel. Trump: “He’s trying to defend Bibi.”
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The International Criminal Court has NEVER indicted or prosecuted an American citizen in its 24 years of existence. Never. Not one single time. Marco Rubio is looking straight into the camera and telling you a bold faced lie. This has NOTHING to do with “protecting American sovereignty” and everything to do with protecting Israel. The Trump Administration is willing to expend every ounce of soft power and shred every other diplomatic relationship we’ve ever built in order to do the bidding of the rogue, genocidal state of Israel and the Zionist lobby.
Today, the Trump Administration is sanctioning the ICC. This action should encourage our Allies within the Court to work for solutions to end this threat to U.S. sovereignty forever.
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if you think the International Criminal Court is a threat to you... you might just be a war criminal
Today, the Trump Administration is sanctioning the ICC. This action should encourage our Allies within the Court to work for solutions to end this threat to U.S. sovereignty forever.
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You guys fucked up painting the bottom of a pool.
America will establish a permanent presence on the moon. 🚀🌕
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He is a terrible speaker on the international stage. The UK needs much better energy than this.
In challenging times "we need the highest quality collaboration with our closest partners", PM Andy Burnham says in Berlin as he meets German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for talks bbc.in/4yCVXOd
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Khaldoon Al Mubarak’s rare mis-step in fighting the PL “It’s embarrassing the royal family now…There are very clever people involved in Abu Dhabi who I’m led to believe will very strongly counsel this needs to be a quiet retreat” Chris Davidson theguardian.com/football/202…
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Crash incoming 🫣
BREAKING: The "AI Big 10" now accounts for a record 42% of US stock market cap. This includes Magnificent 7 stocks as well as Broadcom, $AVGO, AMD, $AMD, and Micron, $MU. This figure has more than doubled since the 2022 bear market low. By comparison, during the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble, the Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) sector peaked at 41%, while the Nifty Fifty peaked at 40% in the 1970s. Furthermore, Japan’s equity market bubble in the 1980s peaked at 44%. In the past, only railroad stocks have significantly exceeded this concentration, accounting for 63% of US market cap at their highest point in the 1900s. The dominance of Big Tech is extraordinary.
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