Cooking
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Tripe is worth all the laborious preparation
The sagging, slumberous bed of tripe-meat just needs awakening
My kitchen confessions
I wasn’t cut out for the life of a chef
An alternative to deep-fried chicken
Grease-fiends falsely claim that deep fat is necessary
The etymology and delight of asparagus
If asparagus is white and thick, it is too good to use as a garnish
Why we need sharp knives
The law should focus on actual criminals and let us cook
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
Feasts in far pavilions
The cricket tea season will soon be upon us
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another