Table Talk
Personal growth
Green fingers are not always innate, they can be acquired
Playing the game
The grey areas of the law: trying to lead a life on the right side of The Poaching Act
Scenting success
The wondrous whiff of sex, spice and civet
Festive frostiness
Claudia Savage Gore feels a chill around the kitchen island
It’s all in the mix
Modern office furniture can now happily sit alongside Queen Anne walnut
Colour conundrum
A lasting love-affair with Chartreuse
The art of fast food
Empty shelves need not mean dreary eating
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
Katharine Birbalsingh is wrong about religion in schools
Education should prepare us for the good life, not just good grades
Have the police criminalised being “openly Jewish”?
It is unacceptable for the police to blame the victims of potential bigotry
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
Britain needs eccentric thought
Lewis Goodall is wrong about the “radicalisation” of the Tory right
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
