Table Talk
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’
Is New Noma really a world beater?
A top-rated restaurants leaves a nasty taste
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
