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Adam James Pollock

@AdamPollock84k followers

Writer with words in @TheCriticMag, @Unherd, @Spectator and others. Author of ‘Sustenance’ (2023).

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1Dec 27, '24Friendly reminder: if your chopping board looks like this, please throw it away immediately917×28.6M214k9.8k13k
2Mar 12, '24Normalise sitting outside the café all day and not really doing anything536×16.7M27k2.6k1.6k
3Jul 6, '24One of the heartiest, most beautiful soups you can make is caldo verde, a Portuguese soup made with potatoes, onions, garlic, chorizo and greens. It’s also very simple to make! In 255×8M51k2.2k63k
4Nov 6, '24Everyone is smiling, but Barron? He’s mewing219×6.8M97k1.8k3.4k
5Jul 10, '24Normalise sitting outside the café all day and not really doing anything184×5.7M42k3.3k2k
6Jul 10, '24Shakshuka is one of the easiest, most beautiful meals you can make at home. It’s made up of eggs poached in a spiced tomato sauce and is so delicious. In this thread I’ll show you 146×4.6M25k1.6k33k
7Jan 18, '23The before and after photos for a “stunning new renovation” I’ve just seen on Instagram134×4.2M21k576560
8Oct 7, '25We used to be a proper country122×3.8M21k816878
9Aug 17, '23Guys will see this and just think “hell yeah”104×3.3M10k1k394
10Jun 9, '25Can anyone genuinely explain why a pensioner who earns £34,999 per year should get their heating bills paid for by the government (and taxpayers)? That is an income higher than 45%86.9×2.7M18k714430
11Aug 4, '24French onion soup is my absolute favourite soup of all time! It’s super cheap to make, and it tastes like love. In this thread I’ll show you how to make it!86.4×2.7M19k1.3k21k
12Nov 21, '21Normalise sitting outside the café all day and not really doing anything83.9×0238k20k2.7k
13Apr 9, '24You can make the best “fast food” burger you’ve ever tasted in less than ten minutes at home. You only need four ingredients. In this thread I’ll show you how.81.8×2.6M7.3k42114k
14Dec 8, '24One of the best potato side dishes in the world is Pommes Anna! Beautifully light, simple to make and only using five ingredients, this should be a regular in your home cooking! In80.5×2.5M20k1.6k26k
15Nov 27, '21View post on X77.4×0211k29k923
16Apr 9, '25In which a 13 year old white boy drives a truck into a Christmas market72.7×2.3M64k4.2k1.1k
18Aug 20, '24You can make the best burger you’ve ever had in only ten minutes at home. It’s that easy, I promise! In this thread I’ll show you how to make it!66.6×2.1M3k1026.4k
19Oct 13, '25Normalise sitting outside the café all day and not really doing anything63×2M8.6k565516
20Feb 12, '24Shakshuka is one of the easiest, most beautiful meals you can make at home. It’s made up of eggs poached in a spiced tomato sauce and is so delicious. In this thread I’ll show you 57.3×1.8M9.8k71917k
21Oct 28, '25We have more than one existing photograph of Andrew Jackson, who was born in the middle of the 1700s53.9×1.7M29k6312k
22Oct 13, '25The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894 is one of my favourite photographs of all time49.4×1.5M51k3.8k5.5k
23Apr 23, '24England really perfected the medium-sized family home and then made building it illegal48.4×1.5M22k6651.8k
24Apr 6, '24Bolognese is the most iconic Italian pasta dish, and it tastes so beautiful. Fortunately, it’s very easy to make! In this thread I’ll show you how to make it!48.3×1.5M6.1k36311k
25Feb 6, '24You can make the best “fast food” burger you’ve ever tasted in less than ten minutes at home. You only need four ingredients. In this thread I’ll show you how.48.3×1.5M5.6k30511k
27Feb 26, '24The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894 is one of my favourite photographs of all time46.9×1.5M44k3.5k4.4k
29Jul 12, '24One of the most beautiful pasta dishes in the world only takes fifteen minutes to make, and only needs a few ingredients! It’s called Cacio e Pepe. In this thread I’ll show you how40.4×1.3M6.9k38311k
30Jul 7, '24I’ve just seen the worst ever home “renovation” on Instagram. This should be a crime.36.9×1.2M23k636739
31Dec 8, '21A fish pond mosaic in Rome35.9×099k12k1.6k
32Dec 10, '24A perfectly cooked steak is one of life’s greatest pleasures, and thankfully it’s something you can make easily at home! In this thread I’ll show you how to make it perfectly every35.1×1.1M3.4k1474.8k
33Nov 7, '25Collar gap, clip-on bow tie, sleeves too long, wrong shirt, tiny lapels. Embarrassing for the head of the country where black tie formalwear originated.27.9×871k9.4k824249
34Mar 9, '24Turkish eggs is one of the most beautiful healthy meals. You can easily make this with only a few ingredients in about ten minutes. In this thread I’ll show you how to make it!27.7×865k4.3k2888.1k
35Feb 1, '23Olive oil is completely fine for cooking at high heat and people need to stop believing that it isn’t27.6×861k6.7k248194
36Nov 14, '24This sausage and bean stew is one of the staples of my diet, and it’s absolutely beautiful. It doesn’t take too long to make, is very cheap, and is full of healthy ingredients. In 27×843k4.8k1736.5k
37Dec 9, '24Irish stew is the perfect meal to make when the weather starts getting colder! Full of delicious vegetables and meat, it tastes just like love! In this thread, I’ll show you how to25.2×788k7.2k5076.5k
38Nov 12, '24Katsu curry is one of those beautiful, fulfilling meals. Made with lots of chicken stock, vegetables, & spices, and some chicken in panko breadcrumbs, fried in olive oil. It’s 24.3×757k6k1997k
40Jan 8, '25You do not need an air fryer. You do not need a slow cooker. You do not need an instant pot. All you need is a sharp knife, a wooden spoon, and a couple of good pots and pans. Inve21.9×684k5.1k250320
41Jul 19, '24Katsu curry is one of those beautiful, fulfilling meals. Made with lots of chicken stock, vegetables, & spices, and some chicken in panko breadcrumbs, fried in olive oil. It’s 21.4×669k4.3k2096.8k
42Jul 11, '24This is one of the easiest and best tasting pasta dishes you can make: Amatriciana! It takes 20 minutes and has only a few ingredients! In this thread I’ll show you how to make it!21.1×659k3.5k1655.7k
43May 21, '25Opportunity is all around you Unless you live in the UK, where a Head of Finance job at the Cabinet Office earns you the equivalent salary of a Panda Express store manager17.3×539k4k354428
44Jul 22, '24This sausage and bean stew is one of the staples of my diet, and it’s absolutely beautiful. It doesn’t take too long to make, is very cheap, and is full of healthy ingredients. In 17×532k3.2k1265k
45Sep 9, '21The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894 is one of my favourite photographs of all time.16.4×045k4.7k1.6k
46Aug 20, '23“We are much smarter now than people in the past” What people 900 years ago built:15.8×493k3.2k321123
47Nov 18, '24Shakshuka is one of the easiest, most beautiful meals you can make at home. It’s made up of eggs poached in a spiced tomato sauce and is so delicious. In this thread I’ll show you 14.9×465k3.2k1984.4k
48Nov 26, '24French onion soup is my absolute favourite soup of all time! It’s super cheap to make, and it tastes like love. In this thread I’ll show you how to make it!14.5×452k3.8k2364.1k
50Dec 11, '24Cottage pie is the definition of comfort food: beef, vegetables, mashed potato, baked. It’s so cosy and tastes like love. In this thread I’ll show you how to make it!11.5×358k3.7k2643.4k
51Feb 25, '22CONFIRMED: Ukrainian ace pilot “Ghost of Kiev” confirmed as local man Сэм Хайденко11.5×032k2.9k556
52Nov 4, '25St Pancras railway station, London, built in 1868. The past is a foreign country.11.2×348k8.9k563323
53Sep 27, '24Irish stew is the perfect meal to make when the weather starts getting colder! Full of delicious vegetables and meat, it tastes just like love! In this thread, I’ll show you how to10.6×330k3.8k2514.2k
54Feb 18, '23The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece in 1894 is one of my favourite photographs of all time.10.0×311k6k530350
55Apr 28, '25One of the best potato side dishes in the world is Pommes Anna! Beautifully light, simple to make and only using five ingredients, this should be a regular in your home cooking! In9.8×306k3.2k1953.8k
56Aug 31, '24A lot can change in four years9.3×291k4k78367
57May 27, '25Eating rice with your hands (gross), while simultaneously talking aloud on the phone, on a crowded London Underground train, is genuinely one of the most black-pilling things I’ve 9.2×286k4.3k178258
58May 9, '25John Singer Sargent’s painting ‘Staircase in Capri’ (1878) is one of the most beautiful portrayals of light in art that I’ve ever seen8.7×270k13k1.1k1.5k
59Sep 7, '24There are few things more beautiful than an English country house8.4×261k5k288304
60Oct 19, '24Am I the only one who thinks that street art / murals universally looks bad? The artwork never tends to inspire any emotion. Maybe they should just build nicer looking buildings, t6.7×208k3k10870
61Feb 8, '25I have no idea why in the year of our Lord 2025 people are still raking leaves into plastic bags and disposing of them. Leaves decompose! They make soil! This is how you keep healt6.3×198k4k547111
62Jul 9, '25The Japanese Ambassador does more to promote beautiful Northern Ireland more than our own politicians6.2×194k11k49491
63Jun 26, '25Which Way, Elderly British Person?5.4×168k4.6k183183
64Oct 7, '25England was made for colder months5.4×168k13k490410
66Jan 9, '25The books the local bookshops sell:5.3×164k3.9k7789
67Mar 25, '23You need to be making everything as beautiful as possible. It’s good for the soul. Here’s a little focaccia bread garden I made.5.2×162k3.9k281138
68Jul 29, '25I have acquired a large decorative handmade earthenware guinea fowl4.9×153k7.9k212152
69Oct 26, '22Men want one thing4.8×012k1.1k619
70Apr 5, '23Scientists create Liquid People; a tank full of water and blended urbanites that could be an alternative to people in urban areas.4.8×150k3.9k35065
71Jul 22, '25Just posting some invitations, couldn’t help but be amazed by how stark the downgrade is between the portrait of the late Queen and the current portrait of the King. He’s not even 4.6×143k3.3k13882
72Oct 7, '25It’s very frustrating that we perfected high-density townhouse and then just … stopped building them4.5×141k4.4k208168
73Oct 9, '25England our land4.4×138k13k654240
74Aug 15, '22This is probably the most important thread I’ve ever made: Here‘a a mega-thread of all my cooking threads, added together in one easy-to-find place. I hope you can learn something 3.8×04.4k6333.9k
75Apr 28, '22View post on X3.6×011k91499
76Oct 23, '24One of your main goals in life should be to make where you live beautiful. It has such a positive impact on every other aspect of your life.3.2×101k3.1k179407
77Oct 14, '25I just know she loves Lana Del Rey3.1×97k3.4k194207
78Apr 13, '25Little Margo is getting the sun3.0×94k9.7k271259
79Sep 8, '25His kitchen is genuinely about three times the size of mine. Absolutely insane that the government willingly give out residence in large homes, while countless young people suffer 3.0×94k3.9k463113
80Jun 17, '25No way3.0×92k3.2k109117
81Apr 21, '25Just heard the BBC newsreader saying Pope Francis took his papal name from “Saint Assisi” Constantly in awe at how terrible the BBC is at everything they do2.9×90k3.1k14475
82Sep 26, '25View post on X2.9×90k3k9195
83Sep 15, '25Timeline cleanse2.9×89k6.1k535158
84Oct 28, '22> Nobody knows who he is > Becomes Twitter CEO > $12 million stock compensation > Adds nothing of value > Gets fired after less than a year > $42 million severanc2.8×08.4k501155
85Oct 8, '25England our land2.7×85k7.6k426214
86Nov 7, '22One of my favourite meals to cook and eat is steak, honey roasted carrots, and mash potato. It’s good for you but also warms the soul. In this thread, I’ll show you how to make it.2.5×04.5k2731.8k
87Apr 27, '22Focaccia bread garden2.1×06.2k391190
88Jan 20, '22It’s called “plant-based food” because all of it is made in large manufacturing plants2.0×05.3k62995
89Oct 7, '25England Our Land1.9×61k5.4k323120
90May 3, '22Biblically accurate cat1.9×05.7k44152
91Jun 17, '22The before and after photos for a “stunning new renovation” I’ve just seen on Instagram1.6×03.6k129126
92Oct 3, '22Forget 9-5 jobs, normalise doing whatever this is instead1.5×04k542140
93Nov 8, '21Manifesting this way of life1.5×04.3k33976
95Feb 3, '22Church of Saint John in Sohrol, Iran1.2×03.3k307106
96Jul 2, '22Men want one thing1.1×02.8k230124
97Nov 29, '21Your ancestors are always with you and within you. You are never alone.1.0×02.8k30850
98Oct 29, '22I must live a certain way1.0×02.9k23483
99Dec 5, '22Honestly I’m pro- whatever stops things like this from happening1.0×02.9k15647
100Jun 22, '21A lot can happen in six months0.9×02.6k6653
101Oct 9Canada has decided to cancel its plans to allow mentally ill people to end their lives by assisted dying – this is good news. Following the rejection of assisted suicide in Britain0.1×3.9k2329

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