Table Talk
Gentleman of Médoc
This wine is ready to drink but can readily be put down to hibernate for another half decade before being savoured by the Shepherd Market salonnières
How Britain really eats
Lisa Hilton enjoys a Thai feast that shows that fiery and exotic has now become mainstream
Everlasting beauty
Dried flowers are back in vogue, says Hephzibah Anderson
Jugular vain
Hannah Betts artfully curates the perfect neckmess
Morning glory
Why must breakfast be a meal bereft of imagination? Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers an alternative
#couplegoal — orientated
Claudia Savage-Gore drags woke Will back to therapy
Man with the van
Thomas Woodham-Smith on the trade’s true mavericks
Do the right thing
Shoots must be places of buzzing biodiversity
Miserable minimalism
Lisa Hilton says a prime spot near the kitchen is no compensation for a bewilderingly bad evening
A word to the wise
The plants are listening, says Hephzibah Anderson
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Deer prudence
It’s time for a change of attitude to wild British venison
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
