Table Talk

Silence of the fans

Nick Cohen says silent sport needs crowds to give it meaning

Little cup of perfection

Lisa Hilton praises a divine lunch in Santiago de Compostela

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