Country Notes
Up with the Times
A fond farewell to the countryman’s bible
Walk on the wild side
A new role for old game keepers
Hunting ghost ponds
The loss of a rich wildfowl habitat
A countryside for all
Patrick Galbraith wants shooters and mushroom heads to get along
Gunning for shooting
Why field sports are so misunderstood
Goodbye, old friend
Parting ways with a favourite old shotgun
The accidental dog
The dog owners of this country have had enough of experts
The dog won’t hunt
Why are we so dismissive of rural ways?
The moment of truth
We need to be honest about the reality of the kill
In a poet’s footsteps
A trip to Ted Hughes’s “loneliest place”
The Scullionbait Awards for Reporting Merit
Articles with no opposing quotes, criticism, or trace of so-called “balance”
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
A cruel choice
Today’s euthanasia bill risks sending Britain down a dark path
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
