Food
Starving for a good argument
Henry Dimbleby’s new book doesn’t hit the spot
A fright in the Dolomites
It’s a bit much to go to dinner at a luxury ski resort and find oneself inadvertently appearing in Fawlty Towers with zombies
The real McCoy
With a little effort, haggis can be a real treat
How to drink port without the storm
There is nothing more agreeable than a glass or two of fine vintage port at Christmas. As long as it agrees with us!
Creeping mediocrity
A dismal lunch at a chain restaurant woefully short of theatreland glamour
Mugged by a mud-caked spud
Farmers’ markets are a rip-off aimed at food snobs and posturing fools with more money than sense
What the Russians may be eating in Tbilisi
Georgian cuisine is a rose with few thorns
Anyone for Woolton pie?
Enduring a taste of the Blitz spirit at a chain restaurant with no butter, no jam and few staff
The comeback Pig
A country pub where the cooking extracts the maximum amount of flavour
The food bank of Threadneedle Street
Andrew Bailey and the art of apocalypse banking
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
The sentinel sleeps in Lothian
A new book is full of architectural treasures that the Scottish Government should do a better job of treasuring
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
Sticky situation
Everyone’s Sticky Toffee Pudding recipe was different. All were revolting
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
