Table Talk
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
Chard: an apology
On the rehabilitation of chardonnay
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
