Table Talk
Spring into bling
Post-pandemic life is a party
It’s a 10 from me
Lunching at one of Soho’s finest as it celebrates a decade of unassuming excellence
Steam and cedar
How to moth-proof your carefully curated personal V&A
Sent to the gulags
School trips with the oligarch kids
The wine of emperors
The puzzling economics of venison
Feasts in far pavilions
The cricket tea season will soon be upon us
The tides of taste
Quality is as desirable as ever
As easy as pie plant
How to pamper your rhubarb patch
Labour of love
Spring is an essential time in wine production
The way of all flesh
Why not give up vegetables for Lent?
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
