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Nuclear Plant

Carnivores beware: William Sitwell finds that an ill-considered joke about vegans can cost you your dignity – and your career

More than Machismo

The late, great Burt Reynolds starred in many a movie, but Ed Cumming thinks his lasting legacy may be his irreverent charm

Cash and Carriers

When it comes to defending the realm, cyber attacks can never match the sheer colossus that is a 21st-century Navy warship, writes Con Coughlin

Life on the rocks

Paddy Renouf finds that the best bartenders can mix a drink to match your mood – or lift you out of one with a transcendental trip for the tastebuds

Blood orange & Bergamot Gimlet

Alice Lascelles suggests a flavoursome twist on the classic Gimlet

Rare Beasts

The snow leopard is at risk of becoming extinct – and high up in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, Stanley Johnson is fighting to save it

No Fly Zone

If hell is other people, air travel has become a descent into the seventh circle. Nick Ferrari holds his nose and steps aboard

Wobble Gate

Was 2018 the year that Britain permanently lost its stiff upper lip in favour of hearts on sleeves? Rob Crossan investigates

All hail the King!

By the 1960s and still a young man, Elvis’s career was in freefall. Jonathan Wingate explains how, fifty years ago this month, the singer pulled off the greatest comeback in music history

The Master of Kingsclere

Presiding over the historic Park House stables, trainer Andrew Balding – racing royalty in his own right – is aiming for Antipodean glory at November’s Melbourne Cup, he tells Colin Cameron

The art of selling

Jean-Davide Malat, art-world boulevardier and adviser to the A-list, will go to any lengths to uncover the next big thing, finds Andy Jones

A certain idea of Gaulle

Bruce Anderson looks at the life of the titanic figure who reshaped France – yet who found it difficult to be French

La Fin de L'affaire

Tom Parker Bowles laments the decline of those former neighbourhood stalwarts, the French brasserie and bistro, and names the descendants keeping the cuisine alive and well

Remembering Aretha

More than any other singer, Aretha Franklin epitomised soul music in its purest form, effortlessly blurring the boundaries between rhythm & blues and gospel. Jonathan Wingate looks back on the extraordinary life of the Queen of Soul

Lifting the lid on Steinway

At its Hamburg factory, Steinway & Sons has been making the finest pianos the same way for aeons. Timothy Barber steps inside the workshops of the most famous instrument maker of them all

The Definitive Rat Pack

‘The Definitive Rat Pack’ show at Boisdale of Canary Wharf this summer will transport you to the 1960s Sands Hotel where the Kings of Swing were at the very peak of their fame.

Autumn's Fruit

This season wild mushrooms are taking centre stage on Boisdale menus, with rarely-seen examples foraged fresh every day. Bill Knott sings the praises of the magnificent fungi with names as exotic as their looks

The Paris Discord

An unheralded Parisian tasting in 1976 scandalised France and announced the arrival, in wine terms, of the New World – and naturally, the event was organised by a Brit. Michael Karam meets the man behind the legendary 'Judgment of Paris’

Born to Rum

The favoured spirit of sailors and hipster mixologists can also, it turns out, make for a fine premium tipple in its own right. Mark Palmer puts aside the single malt and switches over to something spicier

The sublime society of beef steaks

Count Nicolai Tolstoy-Miloslavsky tells a colourful story of the demise and rebirth of the Sublime Society of Beef Steaks whose members have been meeting at Boisdale of Belgravia for over a decade

In praise of stodge, podge and porridge

Forget the delicate morsel. For Bill Knott, when it comes to dessert, only a proper full-fat, treacly sweet, and winter-warming English pudding can satisfy

Burns Night 2020

Burns Night

Eat Well with Sitwell - Food for Thought

By William Sitwell

William Sitwell praises the cookbooks that change our perspective as well as our palate

The Glossy Posse and Me

By Paddy Renouf

Britain’s magazine publishing supremo, Nicholas Coleridge, talks to Paddy Renouf about his new memoir and life amid the A-list