grapes
The perfect blend
On the subtle harmony of multi-variety wines
Chard: an apology
On the rehabilitation of chardonnay
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Contra Hitchens on the election
It was reasonable not to vote to prevent a Labour majority
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Still-sparkling gems of an annus mirabilis
Tried and tested novels overlooked in our neophilic rush to the new and wanting
Lebanonisation in the UK
Sectarianism, crackdowns and ethnic tension are becoming the new normal in the UK
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
