Table Talk
Chard: an apology
On the rehabilitation of chardonnay
Constitutional row
On the row over a champion hurdler
Earthy paradise
Exotic food at a Soho Sri Lankan restaurant
Dressing for dinner
On the salad course
Walk on the wild side
A new role for old game keepers
An apple a day…
Sampling a new wave of Bristish cider
October song
Anticipating the jump season
Hi-ho silver lining
On the joy of shiny metallic footwear
Holiday hoo-ha
The trauma of second-home envy
Hunting ghost ponds
The loss of a rich wildfowl habitat
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
