Shots with everything
Lisa Hilton tries indigestible mac ’n’ cheese at a venue that should have gone the way of the tzars
The Piedmontese job
Enjoying the silky and lean Italian Fassona beef in Turin and Kensington
The Venice Architecture Biennale
An exuberant return to the beleaguered lagoon city
Disdain on a plate
Enduring pale, greasy salmon in the spiritual home of the trout pout
Friggitelli with Rosie
Lisa Hilton falls for the rustic charms and continental cuisine of a perfect English pub
Thanks for not sharing
Lisa Hilton says tapas are over-hyped, over-priced and have overstayed their welcome
You can’t make it up
Lisa Hilton asks whether Twitter mobs should be able to police the imagination of novelists and playwrights
The fine art of beetroot
Lisa Hilton swoons over postmodern but pricy three-star brilliance in Paris
Primary sauces
Lisa Hilton savours a timeless French bistro in Pimlico that displays no timidity with the ladle
Pleasures of the plague year
Lisa Hilton welcomes the locals back to Venice and enjoys a spicy nod to the city’s vibrant past
The Day of the Jackal: fifty years on
Alexander Larman remembers one of the most exciting, page-turning novels ever written
Every sport is male sport
Focussing on Laurel Hubbard hides the scores of men dominating women’s sport
Ralph Fiennes, Four Quartets and the future of theatre
It’s impossible to hear Eliot’s meditations and not be reminded of our current national ordeal
Liberalism’s graveyard
Afghanistan is where ideologies go to die
See no evil
Rampant sexual violence begins with porn use and ends in the death of women and girls
Playing the wild card
“Rewilding” is fashionable but there is more to it than letting Nature run free
What’s it like to have a home? Part II
Decades later, I remembered my mother’s mental patients
Life as an accidental émigré
The coronavirus pandemic has birthed a new historically-specific group: the lockdown refugees
Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires Diary 9.0
Dominic Hilton spots a sniper on a balcony, has embarrassing encounters in lifts and thinks gender-neutral language would make learning Spanish a lot easier
The incestuous sins of the soixante-huitards
The secrets and lies of the Castro-loving 1960s revolutionaries who became part of the French establishment