Fish
A real taste of the sea
Forget hoary folk tales and savour plump herring at its best, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Scotched salmon
Patrick Galbraith on wild food and ethical blindspots
Lobsters for Lent
Abjure fasting for good deeds, says Felipe Fernández- Armesto
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
The soul of gender
How trans ideology appeals to deep spiritual instincts
Dune and progressive media illiteracy
Leftist moralism obscures thematic depth in its frantic rush to judge
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
