Food
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
Singing Shane’s praises
A man with an appetite for victory, and everything else too
Crepuscular perfection
There’s a new Tuscan restaurant in town — and it’s a success
Bring home the bacon
The humble bacon sandwich is the only possible choice for breakfast
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
Slaying gay culture
How trans activists took over the once worthy gay rights struggle
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
The secret war of a wolf in chic clothing
Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II
A misguided election briefing
The Church must recognise there are Christians on both the left and right of politics
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
In defence of emotional voting
We cannot expect voters to think in cold rational terms
Russian to judgement
Russia watchers are the real useful idiots
Will Labour build back better?
The most conspicuous monuments of the last decade are the vast online shopping warehouses
