Organised crime is targeting artisanal food
Organised crime has a new focus: high-end food production. The latest victim is Wildfarmed, a UK-based, regenerative flour business co–founded…
Brussels is making your perfumes worse
‘Heliotropin,’ said the Frenchman mournfully. I was midway through lunch in Mayfair with Benoit Brosseau, whose father, Jean-Charles, created the…
How to solve the student debt crisis
England’s student debt is staggering. It comes to £270 billion – that’s larger than the budget for the NHS and…
What does liberalism mean any more?
A discussion has broken out about the end of liberalism and emergence of the age of the tyrant. Our political…
The clandestine side of Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Scruton is remembered by most people as a conservative philosopher. Softly spoken and thoughtful in conversation, he was…
Frugal chic, the movement changing the way women shop
It is, apparently, a novel concept in our age of overconsumption, that life can still be enjoyable even if you…
Why is crude oil measured in barrels?
Crude estimates Why is crude oil measured in barrels? — From medieval times onwards, all sorts of commodities were measured…
‘I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left’: Steve Hilton on why he’s running to be California governor
‘I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left,’ Steve Hilton tells the lunch meeting…
The rise of the pocket money app
I am standing in the village Co-op with my eight-year-old daughter when she asks, inevitably, to be bought a magazine.…
Letters: Don’t underestimate Ed Miliband’s malign influence
Leave the US to it Sir: I was struck by the dichotomy of your 21 March issue. Christopher Caldwell describes…
The taxman is coming for the self-employed
Spare a thought for Mrs McClafferty & Co. Like thousands of small business owners, she has spent years managing things…
Never mind bashing ‘profiteers’, slash fuel taxes and green levies
As chairman of the value-for-money Iceland frozen-foods chain, Richard Walker might be expected to know what he’s talking about in…
This Hockney show is disorientatingly enjoyable
When so much contemporary art is riven with obscurity and angst, it is disorientating, at first, to encounter something as…
China wants robots to look after the elderly
An AI data centre – imagine a factory of buzzing wires and computing equipment cooled by industrial fans – can…
Goodwill will not save Claudia Winkleman’s new chat show
Claudia Winkleman has a chat show on the BBC. I’m struggling to understand why this is a story but I…
For those of a nervous disposition, is Sinners worth it?
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners won four Oscars and was nominated for 16 and I’d yet to see it. Sometimes the labels…
Don’t miss it: Summerfolk, at the Olivier, reviewed
Dachniki meaning ‘dacha people’ is the Russian title of the National Theatre’s new production of Gorky’s sprawling 1905 drama. Nina…
Anthemic angst from The Twilight Sad
The only thing misery loves more than company is a backbeat. While capturing pure happiness surely remains the Holy Grail…
Royal Opera’s Siegfried is magnificent
Covent Garden’s new Ring cycle has reached Siegfried, and once again, you can only marvel at Wagner’s Shakespeare-like ability to…
Ovid puts today’s radicals to shame
It’s a crisp afternoon, and in a darkened room in central Amsterdam a woman is being smothered in snakes. Projected…
Tales of quiet intensity: The News from Dublin, by Colm Toibin, reviewed
Familiar themes emerge in this third collection of short stories, such as neglect, bereavement and the Irish diaspora in the US
