Table Talk
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
Cooking the books
Few writers do justice to food, but the exceptions are glorious, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Time for Coco
Hannah Betts pays homage to the ever-chic Chanel
The dram team
Glenturret is a single malt of rare quality and maturity and with the hue of polished mahogany
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
