Table Talk
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Eyes on a miserly prize
It’s not just owners who are being fleeced
Athenian ambrosia
Savour a culinary renaissance in Greece
Food fit for an angel
Celebrate Michaelmas in style
Live and let live
Labour must resist the urge to kick field sports
Greeks bearing gifts
This wine nation has more to offer than retsina
Vicarious pleasure
On the enduring allure of celebrity cast-offs
Boho Ohno
Boho’s back, baby, meaning droopy, limp and dismal is the name of the game
Declining nude
A life drawing class gets rather too real
En rama drama
Spanish wine helps one escape the misery and damp of Britain
Commonwealth citizens should not be allowed to vote
Newly arrived non-citizens being allowed to vote makes a farce of British democracy
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
Nightmare on Starmer Street?
Bigger government is coming — but there is no avoiding it
The Venice Art Biennale
The overall tone is rather bloodless, smug and muted where one might hope for exhilaration
The good news on academic free speech
The Office for Students has offered some cause for optimism
Kimchi culture
A new gallery pursues a pungent kind of artistic and intellectual renewal
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Is cricket growing up and leaving home?
In many ways the sport is thriving, but there is danger ahead
Boiling the British frog
Decline is a process, not a moment
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
