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Principled abstention
Christopher Pincher embarks on Lent, but allows himself to indulge in French white wine
Antique business
Thomas Woodham-Smith on an old trade in a brave new world
On the square
Hannah Betts feeds her addiction to Hermès’s wearable art
Poison Ivy League
Claudia Savage-Gore faces the grim prospect of her daughters opting for US universities
Mission misstatements
What is at your core?
Water wolf
Patrick Galbraith on the promise -and the pain-of a pike that got away
A little world of death
Christopher North says the decline of bull fighting is greatly exaggerated
A stroll in the park
Nick Cohen loves the weekly run that insists it’s not a race
Are we an oppressor nation?
Marcus Walker responds to an article calling for a re-examination of Britain’s history
Welcome to the unfrozen North
How Canada reinvented its musical prowess
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham