Table Talk
Left on the rail
Hannah Betts frets about a fashion industry in pandemic deep freeze
All aboard!
Tom Chesshyre picks his favourite British railways
Green shoots
Hephzibah Anderson heads for the allotment
Opening gambits
Christopher North witnesses the start of the bullfighting season
Another country
Fiona Duncan’s post-Covid-19 hotel wish list
A bountiful Baja garden
Lisa Hilton enjoys sublime food and hibiscus margaritas on an enchanting Mexican ranch
Roast lamb of God
A simple, seasonal feast is best, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Principled abstention
Christopher Pincher embarks on Lent, but allows himself to indulge in French white wine
Antique business
Thomas Woodham-Smith on an old trade in a brave new world
On the square
Hannah Betts feeds her addiction to Hermès’s wearable art
A new blasphemy law?
LGBT groups are demanding a ban on so-called “conversion therapy” — but the devil’s in the detail
Where the flak?
Behold Boris — veteran of foreign wars
We need to talk about Sex Education
Relationship and Sex Education classes for children are being taken over by outside providers with their own agenda
Why I fear this censors’ charter
Nadine Dorries’s chilling Online Safety Bill invites professional activists to wipe anything they deem wrongthink from the internet
A Commons grilling
Boris vs Keir once again provides more heat than energy
How do you solve a problem like the protocol?
The apotheosis of Johnsonism
France’s unspoken, unfinished civil war
France’s cycle of social unrest and politically polarised elections has its roots in the Algerian conflict and the ensuing unresolved struggle for the soul of the nation
The Beatles: occasionally fab four
Their output was more mixed than many critics would like to believe
Blood and beauty
Bullfighting magnificence in Santander
Do Conservative front runners always lose?
It’s always hard to tell who’ll win and who’ll be sent to the glue factory
People of class?
Enough with the inequalities Olympics