Country Notes
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
The poacher’s gun
A time when countrymen had to steal or starve
Another country
The tales that show how rural life has changed
Funny old game
What would Big Jack have made of today’s shoots?
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
A Good Read should be better
Some weeks there are comedians and groovy journalists — others it’s groovy journalists and comedians
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
A new low in anti-vape scaremongering
There is no great risk of oral cancer among vapers
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
