Table Talk
The brats who ruin brunch
Brunch provides the luxurious pleasure of a relaxed mid-morning meal until the ankle-biters arrive
In a poet’s footsteps
A trip to Ted Hughes’s “loneliest place”
First past the post
The Critic’s Racing Awards
Jotting and plotting
Real gardeners need to keep a journal
The real McCoy
With a little effort, haggis can be a real treat
The man who liberated the Ritz
David Bruce: “the last American aristocrat” renowned for his oenophilia
Happy Gothmas
Get your festive Morticia Addams on
Valuable life lessons
How to upset a “socialist” friend
Hoorah for hurdles!
Celebrating the start of the jumps season
Creeping mediocrity
A dismal lunch at a chain restaurant woefully short of theatreland glamour
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
