Table Talk
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Burgundy on a budget
In search of the wine lover’s holy grail
Dance with the devil
Should a museum be a venue for the display of works of art for sale?
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
A Boxing Day treat
It’s Boxing Day — and that means it’s the King George VI Chase at Kempton
Blazing a trail
Put your neck on the line with these winter picks
Christmas? My arse!
Seething about Santa, sofagate and the Common effing Entrance
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
Most Read
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Lessons from the Argentinians
There is little value in complaining about foul play if you cannot win
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Starmer’s Indian takeaway
The Government’s India trade deal makes hiring imported workers significantly cheaper than employing British ones
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form