David Profumo
David Profumo is a columnist for Country Life. His memoir, The Lightning Thread: Fishological Moments and the Pursuit of Paradise, has recently been issued in paperback by Scribner.
A bird-lover’s lament
Patrick Galbraith’s debut offers a quirkily enjoyable journey through a netherworldly Britain
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
