Countryside
Natural goodness
Rewilding projects will never grow enough to feed the nation. A new model of nature-friendly farming is a better solution
Oldies made the best holiday companions
A trio of 20th century novels each offer a different desideratum for the discerning lounger
Another country
The tales that show how rural life has changed
Save this Severn heaven
A property developer has an idyllic and precious plotland development in his sights
Rabbit, run
Patrick Galbraith enjoys a frustrating day with dog and gun
Friggitelli with Rosie
Lisa Hilton falls for the rustic charms and continental cuisine of a perfect English pub
Splendid isolation
Patrick Galbraith laments the increasing loneliness of rural life
Wonderful call of the wild
Macdonald’s prose is full of resonance and beauty, apposite delicacy and memorable evocations, says Matthew Adams
It takes all sorts
Patrick Galbraith on rural racism and the fear of outsiders
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future