Vineyards
Chard: an apology
On the rehabilitation of chardonnay
The colourful world of English winemakers
Henry Jeffreys on the tyros who made English wine world class
Keeping it funky
An Argentine winery that revels in the old ways
The birthplace of wine
Raise a toast to Armenian resilience
Principled abstention
Christopher Pincher embarks on Lent, but allows himself to indulge in French white wine
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
Is Britain a Christian country?
The UK has an established religion alright — the worship of the self
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
The darkness of assisted dying
The desire to end terrible pain is understandable — but the dangers are severe
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
