Taboo
Eat on the wild side
A lamentation on the bland American diet
Cry foal
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on food taboos and why the British won’t eat horsemeat
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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
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy