Gone tomorrow: Are hares on their last legs?
Campaigners have called for Sir Keir Starmer to ban hare shooting in February but things are not quite what they seem
My first book, In Search of One Last Song, was called the most important book on the countryside in years. The Telegraph calls my new book, Uncommon Ground, 'brilliant'.
Campaigners have called for Sir Keir Starmer to ban hare shooting in February but things are not quite what they seem
Editing the world's oldest shooting magazine gave me a real sense that privileged urban activists fail to see rural workers – it's time they took their blinkers off
Both parties would probably deny it but hippies and hunters have more in common than they might think.
An extract from my new book Uncommon Ground: Rethinking our relationship with the countryside, which explores land access and the impact of humans on the countryside
I headed to Norfolk for a pond restoration course and left feeling pretty positive about the countryside
Patrick Galbraith thinks about renting a cottage but finds that it comes with an unusual condition
Sure the public don't understand farming, shooting, and land management, but what have you done to try to improve that?
While out shooting I often find myself thinking about an uncle of mine who spent much of his short life confined to his flat
I spent a day in a butcher's shop in West London and realised that people are excited about wild meat – British culinary culture is changing and it could be our moment
Your badly behaved spaniel isn't untrainable – it's simply that you didn't put the time in and quite possibly got the wrong dog
Fieldsports wastes so much time on social media – it's counterproductive and it takes up time that could be spent on actually improving our lot
Veganism seems to be on the wane but why can't people aim for a middle ground where they eat meat sustainably and ethically?