Table Talk

The sin of pride

Nick Cohen blames testosterone for his latest sports injury

Ad-vent season

Claudia Savage-Gore fumes over the PTA’s latest “voluntary” wheeze

Britain’s love affair with port

Henry Jeffrey’s recommends a selection of port for Christmas 2020

Anoraks at half-mast

Tom Chesshyre on the death of a train-spotters’ paradise

On nodding terms

Thomas Woodham-Smith says the most vocal customers rarely buy

Cape crusader

Hannah Betts loves the theatrical flourish of a cloak

Trunk routes

Take your time, but do plant a tree, says Hephzibah Anderson

Into the festive spirit

Christopher Pincher enjoys a 2009 Margaux in a dining room steeped in historical scandal

How to beat the killjoys

A pared-back Christmas means we can at last bin the big bird, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Pleasures of the plague year

Lisa Hilton welcomes the locals back to Venice and enjoys a spicy nod to the city’s vibrant past