Table Talk
Swap till you drop
Thomas Woodham-Smith enjoys a great trade tradition
Pond life with Mum
Patrick Galbraith says water can be a great healer
Survival of the fittest
Fiona Duncan looks at the winners and losers as the hospitality sector copes with Covid-19
Training for nothing
Nick Cohen laments the pandemic’s effect on competitions
The hell of hol-shaming
Claudia Savage-Gore on the pitfalls of the back-to-school run at the worst time of year
Taste of the high country
Lisa Hilton savours sublime cookery packed with the flavours of Slovenia’s Julian Alps
Simplicité sur l’herbe
The rules for the perfect picnic are simple, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
When in Romania…
Christopher Pincher explores the Wine Ambassador restaurant and emporium in Bucharest
Closing the books
Thomas Woodham-Smith finds the latest research is online
Achilles heels
Hannah Betts has a fashion-defying weak spot for empowering altitudes
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
