Food Shortages
Anyone for Woolton pie?
Enduring a taste of the Blitz spirit at a chain restaurant with no butter, no jam and few staff
The art of fast food
Empty shelves need not mean dreary eating
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom