Countryside
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Itchen for fishing
Good fishing, books and beer remind us that not everything is awful
Another country
We all need to reconnect with the natural world
Up with the Times
A fond farewell to the countryman’s bible
Pastoral pleasures
Delighting and relaxing away from the city
Hunting ghost ponds
The loss of a rich wildfowl habitat
The wisdom of gamekeepers (w/ Patrick Galbraith)
Deer, eels and Philip Larkin’s lawnmower
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
