Restaurant Review
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Moroccan gold
Enjoy some of the finest food ever eaten at the exquisite Farasha Farmhouse
A fright in the Dolomites
It’s a bit much to go to dinner at a luxury ski resort and find oneself inadvertently appearing in Fawlty Towers with zombies
The brats who ruin brunch
Brunch provides the luxurious pleasure of a relaxed mid-morning meal until the ankle-biters arrive
Creeping mediocrity
A dismal lunch at a chain restaurant woefully short of theatreland glamour
Anyone for Woolton pie?
Enduring a taste of the Blitz spirit at a chain restaurant with no butter, no jam and few staff
Ladies don’t lunch
Dining in style at a quirky and captivating roadside osteria in Italy’s Balkan borderlands
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Centre for a vassal state
Why is a think tank dedicated to “Inclusive Trade” trying to tie the UK to EU imports?
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
