Table Talk
Cupboard love affair
An MP sorts through the collection of wines gathering dust in the office cupboard
Fun and danger at the Fair
‘I need antique fairs like a junkie needs a needle’
The frock du jour
Joining the dots in search of the The Dress
Taking the register
The trials and tribulations of prep-school parenting
Nutkin’s Law
Why we should all eat squirrel
How to go from drunk to hunk
I turned myself from a wine-sodden, desk bound, muscleless lard mountain into a reasonably fit person. And you can too
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Liz Truss was right but naive
She grasped the scale of Britain’s plight but misunderstood the nature of power
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
The fixtures that forged a nation
Even if you loathed sport, you could enjoy this book — which is why it can both delight and frustrate
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
