Table Talk
A full stop in Sussex
Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub
Heaven in a tin
Improvise in the kitchen, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Black to basics
Hannah Betts on the colour with which you can’t go wrong
Buck fizz
Patrick Galbraith describes the exhilaration of hunting
Marathon maniac
Nick Cohen ran and ran and did himself no good in the process
A doctor’s rites
Theodore Dalrymple reveals how the choice of words in medical obituaries are important
Terroir to his toes
Christopher Pincher on the warming tones and redcurrant taste of Pernand-Vergelesses Les Fichots
Burgundy bargains
Thomas Woodham-Smith mixes gluttony and business
French with tears
Claudia Savage-Gore bravely faces up to disastrous seven-plus results
Not drinking but drowning
Lisa Hilton sees Venice disappear beneath the flood waters again and fears for the future
Poet who wrote for all of us
Daniel Johnson says that Clive James’s enduring legacy is his verse
Manners maketh answers
Rudeness does not make for good television
Labour’s plan to turn back the clock on education
Corbyn proposes the most significant transferral of power back to town halls for more than a generation
Scruton’s Danubian overtures
Sir Roger Scruton: A classical composer and inspiration to Hungarian students
Viva vintage!
Hannah Betts is addicted to Vestiaire Collective
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