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Schnappy schnapps

By Sophie Elmhirst - 12 October

Forget the Nobel Prize. What about the Swedish drinking song championship?

Drying out the swalliers

By Alyssa McDonald - 01 October

Class Monitor No.1: Wetherspoons Man

By Michael Hodges - 24 September

The last drop

By Roger Scruton - 27 August

It’s goodbye to good old Riojas . . . and it’s goodbye from me, writes Roger Scruton

In place of strife

By Roger Scruton - 30 July

The British pub was once a mainstay of working-class morality

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Pale in comparison

By Roger Scruton - 16 July

Next to Burgundy, all other white wines are crap

A public nuisance

By Tim Abrahams - 02 July

Observations on boozing in public

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Divine intoxication

By Roger Scruton - 02 July

Is it OK to have a cocktail while reading the Quran

Southern comfort

By Roger Scruton - 18 June

Argentina holds the answer to America’s trouble with wine

Pretty in pink

By Roger Scruton - 04 June

Midsummer haymaking is the perfect prelude to a glass of rosé

Books

Paul Auster

Interview

Alain de Botton

Pop art

The end of irony?

Film review

Bright Star

Classical music

Alfred Schnittke

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Jason Cowley

On Philip Roth

Slavoj Žižek

Lenin was right

“I am a Leninist. Lenin wasn’t afraid to dirty his hands. If you can get power, grab it”

Critics

Tim Adams Andrew Billen Rachel Cooke John Gray Ryan Gilbey Leo Robson Antonia Quirke

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