Uncork the demon
The demonisation of drink has overreached reason
Two views of the end of empire
An expert and an exile provide contrasting perspectives on Britain’s mistakes
Add some petals to the pot
Beauty is not just to behold, but to devour
Dismal bytes
Despairing at “food” on the web
Rich food’s fatal attraction
A menu to die for
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Food fit for an angel
Celebrate Michaelmas in style
My Magyar dish
A dish that combines gravity with tradition, but is cheekily unorthodox
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches