Table Talk
Do the right thing
Shoots must be places of buzzing biodiversity
Miserable minimalism
Lisa Hilton says a prime spot near the kitchen is no compensation for a bewilderingly bad evening
A word to the wise
The plants are listening, says Hephzibah Anderson
Cooking the books
Few writers do justice to food, but the exceptions are glorious, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Time for Coco
Hannah Betts pays homage to the ever-chic Chanel
The dram team
Glenturret is a single malt of rare quality and maturity and with the hue of polished mahogany
Eat, pray, hate
Claudia Savage-Gore threatens to call the divorce lawyers
Shots with everything
Lisa Hilton tries indigestible mac ’n’ cheese at a venue that should have gone the way of the tzars
Please sit down
Take a moment to enjoy your plot, says Hephzibah Anderson
Summer ‘drille
Hannah Betts chooses floaty frocks and espadrilles
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
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home