Spain
Bullfighting à la mode
Christopher North says French aficionados are more demanding than the Spanish
Shingles and delirium in San Sebastián
Despite Covid-19 rates spiking, it was a dormant virus that caught the author out as he tried to venture through Spain
The grandeur and instability of Spain
The rise and fall of the Spanish Empire
Lords of the ring
Christopher North says while matadors come and go, pedigree fighting bulls remain
Linguistic confusion
Dominic Hilton has more trouble with English than Spanish in Argentina
The dangerous lessons from Spain
Leading historian Nigel Jones argues the UK is now dangerously fractured along political lines
Death of a maestro
Christopher North pays tribute to one of the two great matadors of the Golden Age
A paean to Spain and Italy during troubled times
On the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage I saw the delights of the countries most cruelly ransacked by Coronavirus
A little world of death
Christopher North says the decline of bull fighting is greatly exaggerated
Know your Catalan onions
Gerald Frost reviews Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity by Venetia Johannes
Ghost of a Contrarian: Christopher Hitchens’s ‘Letters’ Revisited
Letters to a Young Contrarian: a twentieth century retrospective by a man who saw himself as a sixties radical
Unquestionably Whitty and Vallance
The outlook is grey, no questions
Eugenics and the intellectual left
To what extent should we separate an artist’s work from their period, character and ideas?
Churches say Welsh lockdown is unlawful
Christians leaders have launched a judicial review against the Welsh Assembly
Survival of the fittest
Fiona Duncan looks at the winners and losers as the hospitality sector copes with Covid-19
Gordon’s (Still) Alive: Flash Gordon at 40
Remembering the cult-classic science-fiction romp
A little too mature
In Brideshead, the overriding feeling is that surely the punchline is to come. It never does
Democracy muzzled
Peter Hitchens says Covid masks are a potent symbol of the West’s headlong flight from Enlightenment values
Bad taste of PC foodies
Cultural appropriation in cooking is wonderful, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The death of the DVD commentary
How the rise of streaming platforms has killed home entertainment