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
Repent! Repent!
Accusations of heresy should not be cloaked by pretence of legitimate complaint
A clarion call to parents
The Government has once again betrayed the young
Labour’s chance at last?
Starmer ends 2021 ahead in the polls with Boris Johnson on the ropes
Back from the dead
The UK has a rich comics tradition often obscured by the cultural dominance of Marvel and DC
Woke Lush have done it again
The cosmetics shop is encouraging young women to bind their breasts
Classical architecture’s counter-attack
Reed’s great book exposes the ugliness and illiteracy of Modernism
The strange death of conservatism
There will be no USSR riding to the rescue
The Government stole Christmas
For small businesses, Sunak’s billion is a pimple patch on a sucking chest wound
The Critic Books Podcast: Ariadne
Francesca Peacock speaks to Jennifer Saint about her novel Ariadne
Happily ever EFTA?
This genuine trade bloc is a chance for Britain to show international leadership
William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”