Table Talk
Another country
We all need to reconnect with the natural world
Feasting on Christmas Eve
Luxury tastes for the festive season
Blinkered vision
The threat to racing’s future
Careless glister
Insouciant glamour for the party season
Yule live to regret this
On seasonal stress
Being boring
Why boring clothes are back
Eat on the wild side
A lamentation on the bland American diet
Thanks, but no thanks
Thanks giving in Highgate
Swiss cheese
Milly Ffyne shares an excellent but dispiriting fondue in the alpine haunt of the international jet set
Up with the Times
A fond farewell to the countryman’s bible
The Just Stop Oil sentences were just
Direct action protestors are not immune from the operation of the law
Keir has much to fear
Keir Starmer should enjoy the election campaign because he may not enjoy the demands of power
The UPF panic is a fad
Chris van Tulleken cannot seem to decide what an ultra-processed food even is
Urban insecurity and conflict
The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution
This isn’t about me
Who? Me? A future Conservative Party leader? Well, if you say so…
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
Elon Musk versus the EU
A high-level dispute has major implications for online freedom
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
A guide to British electoral vocabulary
From “adviser” to “woman”, here is what it really means
Burmese days: for good and ill
There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment
