Eating Out
Requiem for a bad meal
Lisa Hilton mourns the pleasure of good company – even in a cynically awful faux Italian in Berlin
Amuse Bouche
Lisa Hilton finds a French-inspired retreat for flagging flâneurs in Shepherd’s Bush
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
The menopause is no joke
It is time to stop being so facetious about women’s health
