Table Talk
Wheeling and spieling
Thomas Woodham-Smith breaks the antique shop silence
Balm for straitened times
Christopher Pincher offers some bargain whites for our tricky times
Peace in our towns
Fiona Duncan loves the unexpectedly luxurious calm of a city break
Kitchen cabinet
Felipe Fernández-Armesto says MPs should pay their dues in the kitchen
Dickens derailed
Tom Chesshyre recounts Dickens’s troubled history with trains
End of the fiesta?
Christopher North worries that lockdown has caused an extinction-level crisis
Woo-woo wins out
I’ve succeeded in keeping Will in London… for now
Grousing more
Patrick Galbraith says the rural vote is up for grabs
Hell on wheels
Tom Chesshyre endures some mercifully brief encounters
Pick of the plazas
Christopher North advises on the best bullrings for budding aficionados
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
