Nature
Itchen for fishing
Good fishing, books and beer remind us that not everything is awful
Real pond life
There is a simple way to foster biodiversity
Jeremy Clarkson touches grass
How a cocky petrolhead found his soul
Can we balance re-enchantment and reality?
We should not throw out the civilisational baby with the consumerist bathwater
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
Another country
We all need to reconnect with the natural world
Queering nature won’t save it
We should stop projecting our fashionable concepts onto the natural world
The empty gap
The meaning of the felling of the Sycamore Gap
Pastoral pleasures
Delighting and relaxing away from the city
Hunting ghost ponds
The loss of a rich wildfowl habitat
The Greens are worse than useless
Their reputation for being nice if a touch naive is far too generous
War, peace, and architecture in Munster
A welcome if flawed history of Irish architecture
Why “buffer stocks” don’t work
Yet again, economists have failed to understand Smith
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year
When breast isn’t best
A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed
Summer for sale
Cricket has always bent with the winds of change
Speak loudly, and carry a small stick
The Tory Party under Rishi Sunak has been all bark and no bite
Without a twist
This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?
Please remember, terrorism is evil
Worrying numbers of people romanticise the brutality of those perceived as “oppressed”
At least somebody’s having fun
Ed Davey grows more cheerful the sadder Rishi Sunak gets
Going on a Truss hunt
We’re not scared — but Conservative MPs should be
