Table Talk

Primary sauces

Lisa Hilton savours a timeless French bistro in Pimlico that displays no timidity with the ladle

Diego Maradona was not a victim

We have no sense of the tragic, only of victimhood, says Theodore Dalrymple

Ring in the new…please

Krug is king: Christopher Pincher on the perfect champers to brighten your family bubble through the dark winter months

The red hand gang

Patrick Galbraith says field sports are a boon for male friendship

The sin of pride

Nick Cohen blames testosterone for his latest sports injury

Ad-vent season

Claudia Savage-Gore fumes over the PTA’s latest “voluntary” wheeze

Britain’s love affair with port

Henry Jeffrey’s recommends a selection of port for Christmas 2020

Anoraks at half-mast

Tom Chesshyre on the death of a train-spotters’ paradise

On nodding terms

Thomas Woodham-Smith says the most vocal customers rarely buy

Cape crusader

Hannah Betts loves the theatrical flourish of a cloak