Table Talk
Artistry in the kitchen
Calmly brilliant cooking rescues a vogueish restaurant full of underwhelming art
Digging a new scene
Thomas Woodham-Smith discovers the joys of gardenalia
Pedigree chums
Patrick Galbraith salutes the perfection of “imperfect” dogs
Gentleman of Médoc
This wine is ready to drink but can readily be put down to hibernate for another half decade before being savoured by the Shepherd Market salonnières
How Britain really eats
Lisa Hilton enjoys a Thai feast that shows that fiery and exotic has now become mainstream
Everlasting beauty
Dried flowers are back in vogue, says Hephzibah Anderson
Jugular vain
Hannah Betts artfully curates the perfect neckmess
Morning glory
Why must breakfast be a meal bereft of imagination? Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers an alternative
#couplegoal — orientated
Claudia Savage-Gore drags woke Will back to therapy
Man with the van
Thomas Woodham-Smith on the trade’s true mavericks
Cooking the books
Few writers do justice to food, but the exceptions are glorious, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The war on normativity
Chris Pratt is a man caught in the middle of a growing rift between two Americas
The classroom culture war
Saving education from the forces that wish to politicise it is one the most important cultural challenges of our time
No one expects the EU Inquisition
The Digital Services Act would appoint “coordinators” with an army of “trusted flaggers” to police digital speech in every EU member state
Sturgeon on the hook
Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill promises a difficult year ahead for the woman who self-identifies as “feminist to my fingertips”
Let them eat filberts
The new owner of Antoinette’s jewellery will not just get exquisite gems but a provenance that is equally perfect and poignant
Happily devoid of consequences
The Beano magazine retains its quality but not all its character over the decades
Hard Labour
Industrial scale drinking, courting communists and winning the “Golden Bollock”
Astroturfing XR
Why are Extinction Rebellion pretending not to be linked to “Insulate Britain”?
Marion Millar’s case discontinued
But for gender heretics, the punishment is the process
Crime without punishment
It should not be difficult to distinguish between political protest and disrupting national life