Hunting
A plague of pigeons
When the magic of nature becomes a curse
The wisdom of gamekeepers (w/ Patrick Galbraith)
Deer, eels and Philip Larkin’s lawnmower
Defusing conflict in conservationism
Ideological warfare is endangering British nature
Gunning for shooting
Why field sports are so misunderstood
Goodbye, old friend
Parting ways with a favourite old shotgun
The dog won’t hunt
Why are we so dismissive of rural ways?
The moment of truth
We need to be honest about the reality of the kill
Lions, lies and legislation
The harms of trophy hunting have been exaggerated
Monarchs of the fen
Stalking muntjac and fallow deer in Lincolnshire
The poacher’s gun
A time when countrymen had to steal or starve
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
What does the Scottish Hate Crime and Public Order Act really say?
Misunderstandings are the fault of Police Scotland and government ministers
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
The cost of dissent
Brave women have sacrificed a lot to stand up for their gender critical beliefs
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
