Table Talk
Ladies don’t lunch
Dining in style at a quirky and captivating roadside osteria in Italy’s Balkan borderlands
The King of Italy
A fragrant modern Barolo is royalty among Italian wines
The poacher’s gun
A time when countrymen had to steal or starve
The allotment plot
How to guard your precious crops against thieves
Armchair punter
Home comforts are preferable to enduring the expense and discomfort of the racecourse
Count your #blessings
A guide to drawing up a healthy resentment list
Playing ball
The best way to sport a baseball cap
Earthly pleasures
The thrill of digging up — and eating — the first new potatoes of the year
Our golden age
Today’s jockeys are the best ever
Another country
The tales that show how rural life has changed
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
