Food
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
Morning glory
Why must breakfast be a meal bereft of imagination? Felipe Fernández-Armesto offers an alternative
Miserable minimalism
Lisa Hilton says a prime spot near the kitchen is no compensation for a bewilderingly bad evening
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
