Our columnist laments on not looking after his hearing properly in his youth, but also notes that being partially deaf has its uses.
When it comes to buildings of historical and architectural note, we don't love them simply because they are old, but because they are beautiful and engage our attention.
A rewarding trip to Kenya, planning a maiden speech in the Lords and hope for farming’s roadmap in 2025 and beyond.
On a recent trip to Portugal, Patrick Galbraith was laid up with food poisoning. It allowed him time to reflect on tourism, tradition and the great travel writer Norman Lewis.
In her last column for Country Life, our longest serving columnist reflects on what it means to write about herself and the world each week, and why she's decided to stop.
Farmers need to convince consumers that the choices they make are integral to preserving the British environment, says Douglas Chalmers
Revd Dr Colin Heber-Percy on how Christmas shows us that ‘the most powerful person in the world’ is not an emperor, or a high priest or the CEO of a tech company, but a helpless baby in the arms of a loving mother.
Taking over the world might not seem the most festive of activities, but a game of Risk will see you through from First Night to the last of the leftovers.
Jason Goodwin on how seeing the world through the eyes of others makes him wonder why he spent years pretending not to be impressed.
If major catastrophes have any advantages, it is that, by shocking us, they can focus attention and resources.
Martin Fone looks at the history of the tin tabernacle, and discovers a tale about the origins of corrugated iron, the history of the church in Britain and how Queen Victoria's ballroom at Balmoral got turned in to a joiner's workshop.
Minette Batters — a farmer, former NFU President and a Baroness sitting in the House of Lords — has a harsh warning for Keir Starmer's government.
Country Life's rural columnist Agromenes looks at the huge improvements being made to the air that we breathe, through the unlikeliest of ways.
Martin Fone takes a look at the history of London's coalgates, and finds that the idea of taxing things as they enter the City of London is centuries old.
Carla Carlisle laments what has become of Wyken Farm — and worries how much worse it may yet get.
Ignored by the media and largely unknown to the general public, the 300-odd pages of this Statutory Instrument may fundamentally change all our lives.
Amid declining sales, the real betrayal would have been letting Jaguar die a slow and painful death by doing nothing at all.
Jonathan Self discovers a name for his sense of unease caused by life being out of balance.
Scientific names are baffling to the layman, but carry all sorts of meanings to those who coin each new term. Martin Fone explains.
On the 150th anniversary of the great man’s birth, we pay tribute to Sir Winston Churchill using his own words, as compiled by Amie Elizabeth White and Octavia Pollock.
