Table Talk
Chips with everything
There is a way to serve pasta and potatoes — with garlic
Cool enough for Cary
Christopher Pincher offers some simple rules to stick to for cocktail-drinking
Carry on camping
Packing Claudia the darlings off for “improving” summer activities
Party political
Claudia Savage-Gore loses sleep plotting a stealth-lavish birthday party
Disdain on a plate
Enduring pale, greasy salmon in the spiritual home of the trout pout
Heaven and hell
Celebrate the return of normal life, but choose your guests with care
Trophy cabinets
Thomas Woodham-Smith meets the go-to man for classic English furniture
Hive minds
Plants, not hobbyists, are best for bees
The potting shelf
You can grow without a garden
Not exactly untriggered
Claudia Savage-Gore on the dinner party minefield of Everyone’s Invited
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
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
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette