Table Talk
Modus shoperandi
Hannah Betts says it’s the shopping you’re buying, not the outfit
Spare the spoons
Claudia Savage-Gore hates the school holidays with three children underfoot
Stag do
Patrick Galbraith takes a shot at deer stalking
Pumping irony
Nick Cohen says you don’t need to join a gym to get fit
High old time
Lisa Hilton finds Jason Atherton’s City eyrie flirty, sexy and a little bit louche
Cry foal
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on food taboos and why the British won’t eat horsemeat
Andean myth buster
Don’t listen to the critics. When it comes to wine the new world produces some real works of art
Low road to deals
Thomas Woodham-Smith heads for Brussels bargains
Viva vintage!
Hannah Betts is addicted to Vestiaire Collective
Applying in camera
Claudia Savage-Gore gives the seven-plus her best shot
A majority built on sand
Keir Starmer should not feel too triumphant — hard times lie ahead
No dog in this fight
A Labour government will bring fresh disasters to replace the old Tory ones, but the Critic will continue its policy of honest criticism
Why levelling up failed
We must think local in order to foster growth
The publisher and the police
The case of Ernest Moret has drawn attention to a sinister abuse of power
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
Are you there God? It’s me, Farage
Nigel Farage bares his soul, but not before he buries his enemies
Stop loving losers
Rishi Sunak does not deserve the media’s perverse rehabilitation project
Big Brother is talking to you
What is with London’s obsession for dystopian public address announcements?
Declining nude
A life drawing class gets rather too real
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
Walk tall in these shoes
If you buy the best kit, it will last much longer
