Fred de Fossard

SARAH DITUM

Felipe Fernández-Armesto longs to dine offaly well

Slippers have made their way out of the bedroom and into the street, finds Simon Mills–although not without precedent or formalities

“One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb,” goes the old proverb. The meaning is simple: if you are going to be punished for a small crime, you may as well commit the bigger one. In the early

1 SALUTING MAGPIES This centuries-old practice is still common across the British isles in rural and urban communities alike. The magpie is commonly associated with death – perhaps because, legend say