Country Notes
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
Pedigree chums
Patrick Galbraith salutes the perfection of “imperfect” dogs
Do the right thing
Shoots must be places of buzzing biodiversity
Bloody vegans
Patrick Galbraith on the complex ethics of butter substitutes
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
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Free speech and fashionable hypocrisy
Between the Tory government and the University and College Union, will anyone be consistent?
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Deer prudence
It’s time for a change of attitude to wild British venison
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
