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One of the charms of rural Britain is the number of relatively unspoilt market towns that litter the hinterlands of the great cities.

“Maybe you should put your name forward,” said the woman at my door. She had just handed me a wad of leaflets produced by my local...

The calamitous British government’s “mini budget” perceptively analysed by my colleague Stoker in the last edition of Only Connect, which...

“You could buy a shoe box in Mayfair...” Such was the strapline of an advertisement by ‘Locate Guernsey’ in the House & Home section...

The editor requested this month a commentary on the United Kingdom Conservative government’s new senior management...

A while ago I rang a friend in Mombasa to find she was at a political rally for one of the presidential candidates in our recent election...

We arrived in Germany after going through the U-bend of the Schloegener Schlinge, with pretty villages at the water's edge...

After a few years in the provinces, I was again struggling round London’s theatrical foothills, doing some work in the drama schools...

There is a common view of what goes on in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and it is perhaps epitomised in this photograph...

I recently returned from two plant hunting (what we call “plunting”) trips in East Africa. The first was on Mt. Kenya...