Table Talk
A bountiful Baja garden
Lisa Hilton enjoys sublime food and hibiscus margaritas on an enchanting Mexican ranch
Roast lamb of God
A simple, seasonal feast is best, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Principled abstention
Christopher Pincher embarks on Lent, but allows himself to indulge in French white wine
Antique business
Thomas Woodham-Smith on an old trade in a brave new world
On the square
Hannah Betts feeds her addiction to Hermès’s wearable art
Poison Ivy League
Claudia Savage-Gore faces the grim prospect of her daughters opting for US universities
Mission misstatements
What is at your core?
Water wolf
Patrick Galbraith on the promise -and the pain-of a pike that got away
A little world of death
Christopher North says the decline of bull fighting is greatly exaggerated
A stroll in the park
Nick Cohen loves the weekly run that insists it’s not a race
The new liberal world order
The judges rule because the politicians won’t
Boris’s pudding without a theme
The Prime Minister made a muddled start to the election campaign
The art of attribution and the attribution of art
The older the work, the harder it is to be sure what it is or who it’s by. So how do the experts decide?
How Sir Graham protected May
The Chairman of the 1922 protected the leader rather than the party
God’s comeback
The Church of England has found God again
Title Dodgers
It’s not just Harry and Meghan who have dropped their titles