DARIUS SANAI - For a mentor, Jonathan Miller could give some pretty damn terrible advice.

ALBERT WARD reports from the underbelly of the Hotel Grand on the labourers who make it possible.

FRANCESCA GARDNER - Shoelaces in metaphor, practice and as literary form.

J L M MORTON shares an extract from her lyrical exploration of care, kinship and pilgrimage.

AISLING TOWL - Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and the revival of a British classic.

MERCY FORD asks: what makes food beautiful?

ISABELLA SANAI on infiltrating classic-car-geek-dom, as a woman.

WILL HALE on the marketisation of folk and country living.

ROSE BROOKFIELD - The changing status of the pigeon.

A misdiagnosis has been made — and our nation’s mental wellbeing will continue to deteriorate until the true source is identified.