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Potentially signalling that the internet is finally running out of lifestyle ideas, TikTok users are spreading butter on pieces of wood and calling it cuisine. The resulting (imaginatively titled) “butter board” is then served to guests as party food. Your host may even provide you with some bread or toast to dip into the butter. Can you even imagine such a thing?
Look, don’t blame me for this nonsense. I’m not defending it. And since our article on the butter board is among the most popular we’ve published this week, I put it to you that you secretly want to try one.
Our author describes butter as “one of the ultimate sources of saturated fat” and recommends moderation. But rejoice, because he also says that you are fine to try one every now and again, if you really must.
At this point it feels like Rishi Sunak became prime minister about five years ago. But it was in fact just five days ago. It’s the latest act in Britain’s longest running tragi-comedy-of-errors, writes Orlaith Darling, who sees something distinctly Shakespearean in the comings and goings of our prime ministers. Here, she casts Boris Johnson as King Lear and Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng as Anthony and Cleopatra.
Another very important political story got a bit lost in all the drama of the past week. Nicola Sturgeon announced that it would be her intention for Scotland to join the European Union if it became an independent country. Given that Scotland voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum, we wanted to find out whether such a promise would tip No voters towards Yes in a potential second independence referendum. John Curtice crunches the numbers here.
Also this week, unbelievably rare microbes, spooky zombie planets and a surprising debate about sanitary products on Chinese trains.
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