Eating In
Recipes for conformity
Reject the joyless nursery arithmetic of cookbooks, says Felipe Fernández- Armesto
Bad taste of PC foodies
Cultural appropriation in cooking is wonderful, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Simplicité sur l’herbe
The rules for the perfect picnic are simple, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
More than a dog’s life
Feed pets what you eat and babies what you hate, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Besieged by abundance
Enliven dull staples with fresh vegetables says Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Roast lamb of God
A simple, seasonal feast is best, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Lobsters for Lent
Abjure fasting for good deeds, says Felipe Fernández- Armesto
Heaven in a tin
Improvise in the kitchen, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Carlos and Me
Following Carlos Menem’s recent passing, David Smith remembers his relationship with the bold and cunning politician
Will Cecil Rhodes survive the baying mob?
View from Oxford: whether Rhodes falls or stands there will come from competing corners criticism, ridicule, and contempt
Why contemporary feminists are wrong about policing children’s television
Once we start using the political concerns of the adult world to moralise about the imaginative realm of children, we’re in trouble
Murders for the end of the month
From laugh-out-louds to gripping plots, Jeremy Black recommends murder mysteries for the end of the month
Gardening is racist
Uprooting hate in the garden, fighting balance at the BBC and cancelling a racist ambassador
Inscrutable Wagner
Roger Scruton’s appreciation of Richard Wagner will remain an important and inexhaustible part of his legacy
Ad-vent season
Claudia Savage-Gore fumes over the PTA’s latest “voluntary” wheeze
A warning to the curious
Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer
Crashed and Burnsed
ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka
How neutral is “Full Fact”?
Sometimes it’s hard to get anyone right