Rural
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Rabbit, run
Patrick Galbraith enjoys a frustrating day with dog and gun
Friggitelli with Rosie
Lisa Hilton falls for the rustic charms and continental cuisine of a perfect English pub
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Standing up for cultural freedom
We must follow the example of brave artists who oppose censorship
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain