Pheasant
Funny old game
What would Big Jack have made of today’s shoots?
Forbidden fruit
Why do so many refuse to shoot woodcock?
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
The enemy of the Civil Service is my friend
Conservatives should hope that Keir Starmer can weaken its grip on British policy
