Table Talk
Health and safety
Nick Cohen says streets must be safe for active lifestyles to flourish
A thorny problem
Hephzibah Anderson battles bristly oxtongue
Lords of the ring
Christopher North says while matadors come and go, pedigree fighting bulls remain
Storylines
Tom Chesshyre finds hidden tales on the platforms
Ye new inne
Fiona Duncan looks forward to post-Covid hospitality
Online banking’s ‘great service’
Dealing with your bank online makes the Labyrinth seem like a Roman Road
Heartbreaking? Ha!
Claudia Savage-Gore refuses to be health-shamed into having the children home all day
Catch that pigeon!
Patrick Galbraith takes aim at an agricultural pest
Without a hitch
Hannah Betts on a coronavirus upside: no bridezilla weddings
Creature of comfort food
Lisa Hilton dreams of Mayfair and the true luxury of a silky, delicate fish pie
One App to rule them all
Mordor was much better than this
The shifting sands of British tribal loyalties
Nick Cohen detects a seismic electoral change based on identity, age and education
Reopening schools: the case against remote education
Keeping schools closed is more harmful to children than coronavirus could ever be
Libertarians and progressives are too irresponsible for freedom
Authoritarianism is the perverse outcome of irresponsible forms of libertarianism and progressivism
Women Can Be Cancelled, Too
Author Flannery O’Connor has returned from the dead to bring gender equality to cancel culture
Passport to Pestilence
Why can’t the government highlight changes to their guidance documents?
The hell of hol-shaming
Claudia Savage-Gore on the pitfalls of the back-to-school run at the worst time of year
An extreme form of criticism
Works by Michelangelo, Velázquez, Rodin, Rothko and Mondrian have all been vandalised for reasons of mental instability or political activism or both, informs Michael Prodger
An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously
Back to the future
Trainsplaining a new world order