Country Notes
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?
Deer prudence
Raise a glass of exquisite Tokaji
Forbidden fruit
Why do so many refuse to shoot woodcock?
Ferreting baht’at
There are few rabbits to be found on Ilkley Moor
Playing the game
The grey areas of the law: trying to lead a life on the right side of The Poaching Act
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
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
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
