Culture
The Royal Shakespeare Company at 60: a very happy birthday?
Muted celebrations, concerns of relevance and controversial origins — Alexander Larman delves into the RSC at 60
Hats off to the great British greasy spoon
Steve Morris celebrates the great British institution of the greasy spoon ‘caff’ and predicts that it will thrive again in a post-Covid world
Drink In to Help Out: Wines from the Western Cape
Henry Jeffreys recommends five wines to support South Africa’s wine industry as it recovers from the aftermath of the pandemic
Labouring unloved
In the West we’ve yet to make the acknowledgment that overwork can be deadly, says Katrina Gulliver
Take the slow train
Tom Chesshyre on the joy and rattle of Spain’s local lines
Let’s call it a wrap
Hannah Betts is hooked on the insouciance of a vast scarf
Finn noir
A Bergmanesque miasma of gloom hangs over every episode in this new Scandinavian thriller
The pleasures and the pain
Christopher North speaks to the fearless Andrés Roca Rey, Peru’s first bull fighting star
Elusive quest for impartiality
I would cavil at the curse of the presenter monologue, tending to sway the audience one way or the other, reveals Anne McElvoy
Homage to Andalucía
Inspired by Withnail and I, Christopher Pincher delves into fine sherry