Table Talk
Terroir to his toes
Christopher Pincher on the warming tones and redcurrant taste of Pernand-Vergelesses Les Fichots
Burgundy bargains
Thomas Woodham-Smith mixes gluttony and business
French with tears
Claudia Savage-Gore bravely faces up to disastrous seven-plus results
Not drinking but drowning
Lisa Hilton sees Venice disappear beneath the flood waters again and fears for the future
Eat well, eat less
Ignore all those food fads, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Keeping it in the family
Christopher Pincher on Michael Fabricant and those who require vineyards to be family-owned
Party pieces
Thomas Woodham-Smith sees out the antique year
Modus shoperandi
Hannah Betts says it’s the shopping you’re buying, not the outfit
Spare the spoons
Claudia Savage-Gore hates the school holidays with three children underfoot
Stag do
Patrick Galbraith takes a shot at deer stalking
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Is Britain on course for abortion up to birth?
Diana Johnson’s amendment creates a medical and legal vacuum that would endanger women and their babies
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
