Food
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
The art of fast food
Empty shelves need not mean dreary eating
Artistry in the kitchen
Calmly brilliant cooking rescues a vogueish restaurant full of underwhelming art
How Britain really eats
Lisa Hilton enjoys a Thai feast that shows that fiery and exotic has now become mainstream
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try and subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
The illusion of normality in Nikopol
Determination and death on the front lines of Ukraine
Starmer the farmer
The Labour battle bus rolls into bucolic England
In defence of hereditary peers
We should preserve Britain’s magical eccentricity
Farage bursts the green bubble
Nigel Farage is right about the unrestrained pursuit of Net Zero
The sincere insincerity of centrism
Politicians cannot but seem like they’re lying even when they genuinely aren’t lying
The slain in Spain, and Belfast again
This police drama tidies up loose ends just enough, but still leaves the viewers wanting more
Decline of the underclass
In the 21st century, London has lost its own internal logic
