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FoodI moved to the Surf Coast (Torquay to Lorne along the Great Ocean Road) in 2013. It’s the traditional home of the Wadawurrung, Gulidjan and the Gadubanud nations. Being Victorian and close to Melbourne (Torquay lies 100km south-west of the city) we’re all a bit snobby when it comes to food and coffee but it’s unbelievable how much it’s improved. There wouldn’t have been much to recommend 10 years ago!Two spots in Torquay are doing next-level sandwiches. Mortadeli does a meatball sandwich that you could easily share. Gooleys does a shredded chicken breast roll with lettuce, chips and aioli. They’re…

Didier Deschamps admits France need to start scoring goals if they are to win Euro 2024.The pre-match favorites were once again blunt in a long and wayward game that ended goalless after 120 minutes, with their manager admitting they could no longer rely on their opponents’ inability to punish them.Portugal missed many chances to do so, with Deschamps urging his side to reach the semi-finals despite one of his own players failing to score in the opener before facing a strong Spain side in Munich. .”We need to score more goals,” the France coach said. “When you score more goals,…

Warning signs of Joe Biden’s decline were hiding in plain sight well before last month’s calamitous US presidential debate performance against Donald Trump.But Biden had the perfect cover: a long history of verbal slips and other blunders that made it hard to blame his age alone. “I am a gaffe machine,” he admitted in December 2018 when asked about potential liabilities of his election campaign.He also medical experts on his side. In 2021 Dr Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician, pronounced Biden “a healthy, vigorous 78-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency”.Critics say there was…

A A familiar figure stood on the sidelines of Blankenhayn Stadium, watching the humiliation unfold. Earlier this week, an impromptu 11-a-side match between a superior British media team and the Football Association’s backroom staff was going down in predictably horrific fashion – full context: They had a very fit, positive Enterprising striker Jimmy Floyd-Hasselbaink – As I made my way down the right wing, I realized the man on the touchline was Kyle Walker, England’s vice-captain and the greatest of his generation. One of the right backs.”You know,” I said. “It’s actually quite scary.”Walker got the message. He smiled and…

Robert F Kennedy Jr has made a startling pledge to not “take sides” with respect to the September 11 terrorist attacks if his long-shot presidential campaign vaults him to the White House.“My take on 9/11: It’s hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn’t. But conspiracy theories flourish when the government routinely lies to the public,” Kennedy wrote on Friday in a post on X in reference to the deadliest terrorist attack ever aimed at the US. “As president I won’t take sides on 9/11 or any of the other debates.“But I can promise … that I…

timeHey, there’s a German word for it: Briefcase Trainer Paradigma phrase used to describe a person who is clearly brilliant at what they do, but is still widely regarded as a disaster.Well, actually there is no such thing single word single word. The phrase “There’s a German word for it” itself is a long-standing red flag, what Germans call a “danger flag”. Introduction to long words in fake German. But as Gareth Southgate prepares his side to take on Switzerland in Dusseldorf on Saturday night, the concept of how to accurately define or measure success feels very much in the…

Joe Biden accidentally said he is the ‘first Black woman’ to serve as vice-president ‘with a Black president’, during an interview with Philadelphia’s WURD radio station. The US president was referring to his vice-president, Kamala Harris, and former president Barack Obama when he made the comments. The slip-up came amid a political fallout following a disappointing debate performance last week that sent Democrats scrambling Source link

To be fair, Frances Tiafoe warned Carlos Alcaraz that he was out to get him. And he almost had him. Tiafoe, the 29th seed, took the first set from the defending champion and pushed the Spaniard out of the knockout round in a thrilling five-set battle.The last match between the two was the semifinals of the 2022 US Open, and it was an epic match. This is a rare sequel that lives up to the original work. “Obviously, playing against Tiafoe is always a challenge,” Alcaraz said. “He’s a talented player… It’s really hard for me to adapt to my…

It’s not just winter that’s coming. This week’s episode of House of the Dragon featured not one but two penises: one mid-fellatio, the other post-coital. If original fantasy epic Game of Thrones became known for “sexposition” – advancing the plot against a backdrop of bare bodies – its prequel seems to be dealing in “dicksposition”.Just past the midway mark of episode three, as a tipsy King Aegon II Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney) arrived at a King’s Landing brothel with his jeering entourage, he strolled past a sizeable erection in the process of receiving a blowjob. The bratty monarch didn’t seem to…

The All England Lawn Tennis Club has used artificial intelligence for the first time to protect players at Wimbledon from online abuse.The AI-powered service monitors players’ public-facing social media profiles and automatically flags death threats, racist and sexist comments in 35 different languages.Former US Open champion Emma Raducanu and four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka are among the high-profile players targeted online who have previously said Instagram and Twitter (now known as X) must be deleted from their phones.Harriet Dart, Britain’s second most powerful person, says she only occasionally uses social media because of the “hate” online.Speaking after her win…