Table Talk
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’
Is New Noma really a world beater?
A top-rated restaurants leaves a nasty taste
The local food revival
Felipe Fernández-Armesto rejoices in the pleasures and comforts of traditional food
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
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
