Table Talk
Death of a maestro
Christopher North pays tribute to one of the two great matadors of the Golden Age
Run for your life
Nick Cohen says the new normal must be built for people, not cars
Rail tracks
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
A rose for a tight spot
Hephzibah Anderson scents success in a pot
Midnight spice
Christopher Pincher is thankful for the South Australian vineyards
A real show-stopper
Thomas Woodham-Smith is forced to pack up and go home
Home-school Hell
Claudia Savage-Gore is locked down with lesson plans, three kids – and no cleaner
The deer hunter
Patrick Galbraith tries to bag a muntjac
Fun runs don’t exist
Nick Cohen won’t be happy until he doesn’t enjoy his daily ordeal
Requiem for a bad meal
Lisa Hilton mourns the pleasure of good company – even in a cynically awful faux Italian in Berlin
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war