Table Talk
Hail Mary
A Bloody Mary is perfect at almost any time of day and in every kind of weather
The comeback Pig
A country pub where the cooking extracts the maximum amount of flavour
Going nuts in May
There is no dish that is not improved by hazelnuts
Fall into the gin trap
Nothing is better than a clean spirit
Best muckers
The tensions of sharing a plot
Out with the in-crowd
Barely surving a nightmarish camp
Funny old game
What would Big Jack have made of today’s shoots?
The final furlong
Horse racing is in existential crisis
Spring into bling
Post-pandemic life is a party
It’s a 10 from me
Lunching at one of Soho’s finest as it celebrates a decade of unassuming excellence
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change