International Cuisine
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
What the Russians may be eating in Tbilisi
Georgian cuisine is a rose with few thorns
Bad taste of PC foodies
Cultural appropriation in cooking is wonderful, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Taste of the high country
Lisa Hilton savours sublime cookery packed with the flavours of Slovenia’s Julian Alps
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport