Hospitality
The art of hospitality
Restaurants should be about more than just the food
Last orders
Is this the end of the hospitality industry?
Hats off to the great British greasy spoon
Steve Morris celebrates the great British institution of the greasy spoon ‘caff’ and predicts that it will thrive again in a post-Covid world
When England has lost its pubs it will no longer be England
The rural pub is becoming increasingly under threat, and with it, a key part of our national identity
Could a Minister for Hospitality save our pubs?
The support being offered to the hospitality sector is far from adequate, and many businesses are falling through the cracks
Peace in our towns
Fiona Duncan loves the unexpectedly luxurious calm of a city break
Confessions of a bar owner
The Government’s 10pm curfew runs the risk of decimating small, family-run establishments
Track rate
Tom Chesshyre has a soft spot for railway hotels
Survival of the fittest
Fiona Duncan looks at the winners and losers as the hospitality sector copes with Covid-19
What will become of the hospitality industry?
Has Britain’s favourite pastime of eating and drinking reached its peak? How will the industry recovery from this financial blow?
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
February letters
Questioning Cameron, cautioning Houellebecq and disputing the image of God
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
