Table Talk

Britain’s love affair with port

Henry Jeffrey’s recommends a selection of port for Christmas 2020

Anoraks at half-mast

Tom Chesshyre on the death of a train-spotters’ paradise

On nodding terms

Thomas Woodham-Smith says the most vocal customers rarely buy

Cape crusader

Hannah Betts loves the theatrical flourish of a cloak

Trunk routes

Take your time, but do plant a tree, says Hephzibah Anderson

Into the festive spirit

Christopher Pincher enjoys a 2009 Margaux in a dining room steeped in historical scandal

How to beat the killjoys

A pared-back Christmas means we can at last bin the big bird, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Pleasures of the plague year

Lisa Hilton welcomes the locals back to Venice and enjoys a spicy nod to the city’s vibrant past

The pardoner’s tale

Christopher North on a sentimental fad that risks cheapening the ritual of the bullring

It takes all sorts

Patrick Galbraith on rural racism and the fear of outsiders