Table Talk
Creature of comfort food
Lisa Hilton dreams of Mayfair and the true luxury of a silky, delicate fish pie
More than a dog’s life
Feed pets what you eat and babies what you hate, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
A Pauline conversion
Christopher Pincher discovers a family wine business in the south east of Sancerre
Crowded House
Thomas Woodham-Smith juggles his work-life balance
The key to self-care
Claudia Savage-Gore stays alert and survives by sending the little darlings back to school
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
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The truth behind The Salt Path
A rampage across middle-class rural England with the conspiratorial intimacy of Bonnie and Clyde
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
The man who defied the ministry
Tom Rolt, whose rescue of the Talyllyn Railway provided a model of how we can stand up to the homogenistion of our culture
An intervention on interventionism
US foreign policy hawks should accept a more realistic approach
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The failed promise of Emmanuel Macron
He claimed that France would become a manufacturing power again. What happened?
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters