Cookbooks
Move over Nigella, Nigel and Nadiya
The cookbook of the year was written by an elderly rogue and self-published
A feast, plain and simple
You wait ages for a decent Irish cookbook, then two arrive together, says Melanie McDonagh
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Peston’s Inbox
Burnham: “Ay up! I’m a northerner”
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet