Table Talk
Antique business
Thomas Woodham-Smith on an old trade in a brave new world
On the square
Hannah Betts feeds her addiction to Hermès’s wearable art
Poison Ivy League
Claudia Savage-Gore faces the grim prospect of her daughters opting for US universities
Water wolf
Patrick Galbraith on the promise -and the pain-of a pike that got away
A little world of death
Christopher North says the decline of bull fighting is greatly exaggerated
A stroll in the park
Nick Cohen loves the weekly run that insists it’s not a race
Amuse Bouche
Lisa Hilton finds a French-inspired retreat for flagging flâneurs in Shepherd’s Bush
Lobsters for Lent
Abjure fasting for good deeds, says Felipe Fernández- Armesto
Velvet Revolution
Exploring Czech wine in Prague
Fairs and fair dealing
Thomas Woodham-Smith listens with caution
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
The students are revolting
Far too many young people are sheltered from the real world by their university education
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
