Country Notes
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”
Monarchs of the fen
Stalking muntjac and fallow deer in Lincolnshire
Ducking for cover
Tweed breeks, secret shoots and searching for lapwings
Passion by the barrel
Meeting the new boss of London’s finest gunmaker
Fear and tension in Frankfurt
Mass immigration has exacerbated societal dysfunction in Germany
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
The students are revolting
Far too many young people are sheltered from the real world by their university education
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates
The problem with the Celtic Fringe
Devolution has proved to be a disastrous mistake
Existential questions
The Conservative Party has to come up with some compelling answers if it is to survive
Poland’s border crisis belongs to the rest of Europe too
A soldier’s tragic death has exacerbated tensions on the border with Belarus
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Terrible beauty
Does the World Press know what constitutes photojournalism?
The war of words over Estonia’s Soviet monuments
Despite three decades of independence, Estonia’s Soviet past is still a cause of division
