Fishing
Itchen for fishing
Good fishing, books and beer remind us that not everything is awful
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
Funny old game
What would Big Jack have made of today’s shoots?
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels
Playing the game
The grey areas of the law: trying to lead a life on the right side of The Poaching Act
Is Britain winning the fishing wars?
Patrick O’Flynn and David Scullion discuss where British fishing stands post-Brexit
Crake and ales
Patrick Galbraith hears a rare bird but fails with the rod
Sex and the singular fisherman
Pike abound in British rivers yet are seldom caught for the table
Should MPs read?
If our representatives aren’t reading these weighty documents, then who is?
A catch that feeds the soul
Heaven is the Outer-Hebrides – with the electric jolt of the sea trout on the line
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
