Crake and ales
Patrick Galbraith hears a rare bird but fails with the rod
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
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
