Boadicea Meath Baker
Amid the alien corn
Maize is a far more useful grain than we give it credit for
A moveable (and risky) feast
Paying the price for eating oysters
Hunger games
Three recent films are surprisingly food-focused
In my end is my beginning
An ‘alternative’ mortician is on a quest for the West to deal with death
Rice is life
Not just a foodstuff, but a matter of life and death
Bread and butter detox
Ignore detox season — get back to basics the Dark Ages way, by making your own bread and butter
Can-do canapes
Canapes can show up the worst aspects of any era
Are you eating comfortably?
Why are comfort foods so comforting?
Tove Jansson
There was much more to the life and work of Tove Jansson than her signature creations, the Moomins
Feeling the squeeze
The failure of a much-mocked juicing startup
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?