Alcohol
Vinous Valhalla
David Womersley reveres Roger Scruton on wine
Purge the puritans
Marcus Walker regrets the new age of joylessness
The worst hangovers in culture
Rest assured that these types had it considerably worse than you, says Alexander Larman
The Critic’s Perpetual Drinking Calendar
Full of events and individuals worthy of toasting for every day of the year
The battlefield priest
Heroism, compassion and enduring hope: the lost war letters of Canon Laurie
Michaela’s unspeakable truths
“Progressive” teaching methods ruin lives to make middle class people feel good about themselves
Such sweet sorrow
Lent is an ideal time to take pleasure in a gentle, contemplative and very English strand of musical melancholia
Another country
The tales that show how rural life has changed
Singing lessons
Spare us the social justice preaching
Le Pen surging as France prepares to go to the polls
France’s establishment parties are nowhere in Sunday’s election
Why hasn’t the Cabinet lost faith in Boris?
It is the history of Cabinet resignations, not no confidence votes, that indicates whether a Tory PM survives
War without end: Putin’s Syria model
The war in Ukraine shows tragic parallels to the earlier conflict
A real nice clambake
The American classic is fine street-party fare
Jerusalem: cradle of lost peace
In the Holy Land coexistence was a fragile dream, built on unstable foundations
Stirring the melting pot
Ethnicity pay gap reporting is a terrible idea, so why won’t it go away?