Parent trap
The truth about single motherhood
Call that Nice?
Mister Nice is not so much a restaurant as a pre-dawn thought flung into the drag between Piccadilly Circus and…
Kugelhopf
Yeast scares even some of the most proficient cooks. I know home cooks and professionals alike, food writers and fanatics,…
Hammered by the French
Rejoice, as you don’t normally say after a hammering like the peerless French dished out to England at Twickenham. But…
When is a crime not a crime?
On Monday, Suella Braverman published draft guidance designed to rein in the police habit of recording a ‘non-crime hate incident’…
Solution to 2593: Capital Development
1A, 7A, 18A, 40A, 46A and 47A are all on the new Elizabeth Line, which appears in the grid when…
2596: Charades
Unclued lights provide three definitions each of a whole word and of its two syllables. Solvers should highlight the word…
Let us pray
In Competition No. 3290, you were invited to recast the Lord’s Prayer as a sonnet. The late Frank Kermode reckoned…
Boys in a bind
Today’s sexual politics is damaging young men
The overuse and abuse of ‘fascism’
I would be very happy if I never had to hear the name Gary Lineker again. He was a vague…
Britain’s invisible East Asians
This week Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian to win Best Actress at the Oscars – and not by playing…
Who cares what Gary says?
There was a kind of peak BBC Radio 4 moment last week when the network put on a play called…
Letters
Channel anger Sir: I fear that in your leading article (‘Our duty to refugees’, 11 March) you find yourself in the…
Common knowledge
Why I used to pretend to be working class
Keeping the peace
How Britain can help Taiwan
