Table Talk
Shock of the new
Thomas Woodham-Smith frets about how to handle real, live customers
A real taste of the sea
Forget hoary folk tales and savour plump herring at its best, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The end of the road
Nick Cohen has adopted a new workout: wrestling with a novel
Elephants in the Zoom
Claudia Savage-Gore
blames the tutors for the darlings’ home- schooling problems
Take the slow train
Tom Chesshyre on the joy and rattle of Spain’s local lines
Busy doing nothing
Thomas Woodham-Smith adjusts to a gentler pace of conducting business
Let’s call it a wrap
Hannah Betts is hooked on the insouciance of a vast scarf
The talk of the track
Nick Cohen compiles a phrase book for neophyte runners
Rites of spring
The roar of the mower is a sign of life, says Hephzibah Anderson
Splendid isolation
Patrick Galbraith laments the increasing loneliness of rural life
The Northern Ireland Protocol partly repeals the Act of Union
The High Court in Belfast confirms the Protocol’s constitutional vandalism. We will settle this in the Supreme Court
In the public “I”
Instagram activism serves the self instead of solving the problem
An unconvincing ally
”Unionist” Keir Starmer seems to assume the UK’s role in Ulster is that of a glorified referee
Classic mistake
Is Latin a dead language?
The regeneration game
A hideous babel of gimmicky buildings that scream: “Me! Me! Me!”
The belief system doesn’t add up
How the quest to eliminate sex in civil society taps into a dark truth about male power and sexuality
Self-made demoniacs
Beware of pointing the finger, even at the devil
Making sense of the SNP
Anglo-Scottish relations from a historical perspective
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
Inside the small town newspaper
How my first editor taught me to report “without fear or favour”