Table Talk
From Pontypool to Pauillac
Christopher Pincher takes us through the Labour Party’s beverages of choice
Blood on the tracks
Patrick Galbraith bags an unlikely deer: a roadkill roe buck
Justice warriors
Nick Cohen says pounding the streets brings its own rewards
Secrets of Portobello
Thomas Woodham-Smith treasures a classic antiques street market
Friends old and new
Thomas Woodham-Smith doesn’t collect, he simply accumulates stock
Decaying delights
Tom Chessyre on the glory of obscure railway museums
Educating the G&T set
Claudia Savage-Gore on the tricky social nuances of London day schools
Krug, Dom Perignon & newer prestige cuvées: are they worth it?
Henry Jeffreys recommends some quality champagnes that won’t break the bank – just don’t serve them too cold or in the company of B-list celebrities
Comfort zone
Hannah Betts chooses chic alternatives to dull sweatpants
Black gold
Compost is the heart of a garden, says Hephzibah Anderson
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
