Table Talk

Principled abstention

Christopher Pincher embarks on Lent, but allows himself to indulge in French white wine

Antique business

Thomas Woodham-Smith on an old trade in a brave new world

On the square

Hannah Betts feeds her addiction to Hermès’s wearable art

Poison Ivy League

Claudia Savage-Gore faces the grim prospect of her daughters opting for US universities

Water wolf

Patrick Galbraith on the promise -and the pain-of a pike that got away

A little world of death

Christopher North says the decline of bull fighting is greatly exaggerated

A stroll in the park

Nick Cohen loves the weekly run that insists it’s not a race

Amuse Bouche

Lisa Hilton finds a French-inspired retreat for flagging flâneurs in Shepherd’s Bush

Lobsters for Lent

Abjure fasting for good deeds, says Felipe Fernández- Armesto

Velvet Revolution

Exploring Czech wine in Prague