Hunting
Having a rough time
If hunting is about communing with nature, rough shooting is a superior medium
Hanging my head with pride
There is immense beauty in deer in the field, venison on the plate, and deer heads on the wall
How to do conservation on the cheap
There is much to be achieved by tinkering at the edges
When the hunt is finally over
A rich and vivid rural culture is being destroyed by a government that does not understand it
Open up the land
A few suggestions for increasing countryside engagement
Goodwill hunting
Could the vibe shift be spreading through British culture?
How to hunt properly
A shooting career should start without a gun
A game plan
Getting into the venison supply business
Green in name only
The Green Party doesn’t understand the realities of rural life
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.