Table Talk
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
Flying tonight
Patrick Galbraith finds a little bit of Heaven in Hull
Walk, don’t run
‘If I can get them walking the editors and staff of The Critic will be demonstrating with Extinction Rebellion in six months’
The Labour voter blues
At least forty per cent of Starmer’s voters are social conservatives. Will he take them with him, or leave them behind?
Equality for some
Labour is continuing a misguided approach to DEI
The curse of super-councillors
MPs should not be focused on the local at the expense of the national
Nesta, I detest ya
An engine of innovation has become a puddle of inanity
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Will the next prime minister stand up for women’s rights?
Rhetorical progress has been made on gender issues — but will it affect policy?
We must punish the parents
How should France tackle the problem of repeat juvenile offenders?
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
The triumph of electoral sectarianism
Votes on the basis of ethnic identity are reshaping British politics
A misguided election briefing
The Church must recognise there are Christians on both the left and right of politics
Gelding: the pros
Bring back the castratos? Might as well
