Hive minds
Plants, not hobbyists, are best for bees
Rabbit, run
Patrick Galbraith enjoys a frustrating day with dog and gun
Splendid isolation
Patrick Galbraith laments the increasing loneliness of rural life
Blood on the tracks
Patrick Galbraith bags an unlikely deer: a roadkill roe buck
The cacophonous Mr Chips
A good field guide, but it won’t make you fall in love with the gull next door
The red hand gang
Patrick Galbraith says field sports are a boon for male friendship
It takes all sorts
Patrick Galbraith on rural racism and the fear of outsiders
Grousing more
Patrick Galbraith says the rural vote is up for grabs
Not child’s play…
Patrick Galbraith says hunting would benefit youngsters
Pond life with Mum
Patrick Galbraith says water can be a great healer
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
