Adam Lechmere
@adamlechmere.bsky.social
Wine journalist and publisher of The Smart Traveller's Wine Guide (Académie du Vin Library), contrib ed to Club Oenologique. London
Good reading from one of our leading authors
New from me in Vinosity magazine: Can #wine adapt to climate change? With increasingly severe drought and heatwaves, climate change is already hitting vineyards around the world. I investigate what winemakers are doing to adapt: academieduvinlibrary.com/blogs/vinosi... @academieduvinlib.bsky.social
Can wine adapt to climate change?
Climate change is already reshaping vineyards as droughts and heatwaves intensify. Here’s how winemakers are adapting.
academieduvinlibrary.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Good reading from one of our leading authors
Remember the hostile environment? Our current Labour home secretary Shabana Mahmood makes Theresa May look positively woke. Everyone now in a tizzy about money spent on taxis for asylum seekers. "Put them on the bus!" After they've negotiated a mob of flag-waving thugs, that is
November 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Remember the hostile environment? Our current Labour home secretary Shabana Mahmood makes Theresa May look positively woke. Everyone now in a tizzy about money spent on taxis for asylum seekers. "Put them on the bus!" After they've negotiated a mob of flag-waving thugs, that is
It's my birthday so I've chosen to share this stone-cold 60s classic (in the Black Country the chorus is "We love Wolverhampton" instead of "hi ho silver lining"). Volume up to 11 please
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Jeff Beck – Hi Ho Silver Lining (1967)
YouTube video by Ив Кaрфaтта
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November 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It's my birthday so I've chosen to share this stone-cold 60s classic (in the Black Country the chorus is "We love Wolverhampton" instead of "hi ho silver lining"). Volume up to 11 please
youtu.be/rb-bKKRl_hw?...
youtu.be/rb-bKKRl_hw?...
The Budget is just a blip in the colossal, ocean-going, copper-bottomed, double-hulled failure of this Labour government. Disappointed? Only insofar as Glenn Close was a little bit cross at the end of Fatal Attraction
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The Budget is just a blip in the colossal, ocean-going, copper-bottomed, double-hulled failure of this Labour government. Disappointed? Only insofar as Glenn Close was a little bit cross at the end of Fatal Attraction
Very important article - Mahmood uses the same justification for her policies as Patel and Braverman. "Cynical and disgraceful" indeed
'I am the daughter of immigrants' is this year's 'my father was a tool maker'.....🙄
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Very important article - Mahmood uses the same justification for her policies as Patel and Braverman. "Cynical and disgraceful" indeed
As with the last days of the Tory government (those dear old days!) you never quite know what's satire and what's straight reporting...
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
As with the last days of the Tory government (those dear old days!) you never quite know what's satire and what's straight reporting...
Reading about Labour's immigration policy gives me the same sense of fearful unease as I had on first hearing about Priti Patel's Rwanda plans. But this is worse...
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Reading about Labour's immigration policy gives me the same sense of fearful unease as I had on first hearing about Priti Patel's Rwanda plans. But this is worse...
My god it's appalling listening to Labour ministers justifying the government's dreadful immigration policies. They sound exactly like the worst of the Tories
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
My god it's appalling listening to Labour ministers justifying the government's dreadful immigration policies. They sound exactly like the worst of the Tories
The most useful and informative article I've read all year and interestingly I find I've been guilty of lots of these infractions over the decades. My pet hate: queuing
Nice collection of thoughts on pub etiquette! If we could immediately action the ‘no tissues, wet wipes or crisp packets shoved in glasses’ point that would be lovely.
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The most useful and informative article I've read all year and interestingly I find I've been guilty of lots of these infractions over the decades. My pet hate: queuing
Has anybody, ever, not suppressed a tiny but concentrated wince of sheer hatred at the words, "Hi! I'm your virtual assistant - how can I help?"
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Has anybody, ever, not suppressed a tiny but concentrated wince of sheer hatred at the words, "Hi! I'm your virtual assistant - how can I help?"
"(London) in their forced intimacy, in their inexorable flow of ideas and influences and cuisines, they are the fullest expression of what it is to be human"
Lovely piece from @jonathanliew.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Lovely piece from @jonathanliew.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Say what you like about ‘Sadiq Khan’s no-go hellscape’ – Britain’s cities prove the rightwing agitators wrong | Jonathan Liew
To rightwing populists, places of fluidity and freedom will always be the enemy, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"(London) in their forced intimacy, in their inexorable flow of ideas and influences and cuisines, they are the fullest expression of what it is to be human"
Lovely piece from @jonathanliew.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Lovely piece from @jonathanliew.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Adam Lechmere
Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Reposted by Adam Lechmere
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I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
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your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
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your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I love these Flamingo editions: 2001 retro eds of 60s titles, so from here they're double retro. Rather appropriate for Ballard somehow... (found in @oxfamgb.bsky.social bookshop Herne Hill)
October 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I love these Flamingo editions: 2001 retro eds of 60s titles, so from here they're double retro. Rather appropriate for Ballard somehow... (found in @oxfamgb.bsky.social bookshop Herne Hill)
Never been in Gail's on account of Brexit champion Luke Johnson being behind it. Now it seems it's exploiting its workers to boot
At Gail’s, what is the human cost behind a £5 loaf of bread?
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w...
At Gail’s, what is the human cost behind a £5 loaf of bread?
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w...
'We're just a bakery': Does Gail's rely on low-paid migrant workers to further its expansionist vision?
The economics and migration behind the Gail’s expansion. Words by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob. Illustration by Kruttika Susarla.
www.vittlesmagazine.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Never been in Gail's on account of Brexit champion Luke Johnson being behind it. Now it seems it's exploiting its workers to boot
At Gail’s, what is the human cost behind a £5 loaf of bread?
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w...
At Gail’s, what is the human cost behind a £5 loaf of bread?
www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w...
Whenever I go to the Lake District I always think, "it's just a whole lot of hills and lakes, and sheep. What it needs is more attractions like zip wires."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Legal bid to overturn Elterwater Quarry zip wire plan fails
Friends of the Lake District says it is considering appealing the decision.
www.bbc.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Whenever I go to the Lake District I always think, "it's just a whole lot of hills and lakes, and sheep. What it needs is more attractions like zip wires."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Quite right too. That Jenrick speech was infamous. Grubby little racist
More of this across the board from politicians please. You can disagree with @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the @greenparty.org.uk on issues, but you have to admit they are the only ones actually taking the rhetoric, fully and uncompromisingly, on immigration back from Reform.
British.
October 17, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Quite right too. That Jenrick speech was infamous. Grubby little racist
I know the feeling...
October 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I know the feeling...
Sainsbury's seven circles of automated receptionist hell: a chirpy and deeply irritating northern voice (this is London, not Yorkshire) telling you "We'd REALLY like to help you" while doing precisely the opposite. Why post a number at all?
@sainsburys.bsky.social
@sainsburys.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Sainsbury's seven circles of automated receptionist hell: a chirpy and deeply irritating northern voice (this is London, not Yorkshire) telling you "We'd REALLY like to help you" while doing precisely the opposite. Why post a number at all?
@sainsburys.bsky.social
@sainsburys.bsky.social
"These strange, terrible children, dancing on the corpse of a party which was once home to Disraeli and Churchill..."
Powerful stuff from Dunt on Badenoch and the "tedious little bore" Jenrick
Powerful stuff from Dunt on Badenoch and the "tedious little bore" Jenrick
October 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"These strange, terrible children, dancing on the corpse of a party which was once home to Disraeli and Churchill..."
Powerful stuff from Dunt on Badenoch and the "tedious little bore" Jenrick
Powerful stuff from Dunt on Badenoch and the "tedious little bore" Jenrick
Ridiculous "snub" headline with deliberate image echo of George W Bush's "America is under attack" moment - implying the decision is a threat to American values on a par with 9/11: the Nobel committee as Al-Quaeda
October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Ridiculous "snub" headline with deliberate image echo of George W Bush's "America is under attack" moment - implying the decision is a threat to American values on a par with 9/11: the Nobel committee as Al-Quaeda
Just to remind all my American friends that today is 10/10/25.
Not 10/10/25
Not 10/10/25
October 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Just to remind all my American friends that today is 10/10/25.
Not 10/10/25
Not 10/10/25
This is brilliant
October 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This is brilliant