Table Talk
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Confidently Cantonese
Chowing down in the Royal China
My Magyar dish
A dish that combines gravity with tradition, but is cheekily unorthodox
En rama drama
Spanish wine helps one escape the misery and damp of Britain
Seller beware
Sotheby’s new fee structure favours the auctioneer
Itchen for fishing
Good fishing, books and beer remind us that not everything is awful
Racing’s shame
British racing should have nothing to do with Sheikh Mohammed
Seasonal style
Picking the right outfit for summer socials
Declining nude
A life drawing class gets rather too real
Dazzled to death in Venice
At last, a truly world-class experience
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?
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
A lesson from a century ago
In Helskini, architect Alvar Aalto is treated, for good reasons, as a national hero
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself