Principled abstention
Christopher Pincher embarks on Lent, but allows himself to indulge in French white wine
Velvet Revolution
Exploring Czech wine in Prague
Terroir to his toes
Christopher Pincher on the warming tones and redcurrant taste of Pernand-Vergelesses Les Fichots
Keeping it in the family
Christopher Pincher on Michael Fabricant and those who require vineyards to be family-owned
Andean myth buster
Don’t listen to the critics. When it comes to wine the new world produces some real works of art
Cupboard love affair
An MP sorts through the collection of wines gathering dust in the office cupboard
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile