Table Talk
Taking the register
The trials and tribulations of prep-school parenting
Nutkin’s Law
Why we should all eat squirrel
How to go from drunk to hunk
I turned myself from a wine-sodden, desk bound, muscleless lard mountain into a reasonably fit person. And you can too
Murders for late November
From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not
Physician, heal thyself
TERF basher Dr Adrian Harrop succumbed to Twitter’s intoxicating brew of self-righteousness and disinhibition
Howdy, partner
On the least erotic noun in the English language
Forgive me
Can Peppa Pig save Boris from the CBI?
The elephant in the classroom
Imagining itself to be impartial, the “neutral” RE curriculum imposes its own claim
The Great War in the South Atlantic
Today is a Falklands public holiday
Brahms 4th symphony, MacMillan Larghetto for orchestra
The Larghetto’s organic optimism transcends present woes and looks to bright eternity
Nudge Nudge Wink Wink
Are policy makers finally waking up to the harms of behavioural science?
Feminists, F1 rivalries and couples therapy
The Critic Narrated: Episode Five, with David Starkey, Boris Starling and Claudia Savage-Gore
Knit picking
The invisible knitting of Michelle Obama led to the cancellation of Kristy Glass
The Boer War
Professor Jeremy Black talks about why the British found the Boers so difficult to defeat