Red Wine
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Traditional beefy favourites
Abandoning classic styles shows a lack of confidence
In praise of old wines
The blessings of maturity
The King of Italy
A fragrant modern Barolo is royalty among Italian wines
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological