Comment & Opinion
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'Somebody in North London wondered if four plump squirrels would be beyond my remit and a chef in Camberwell wants enough venison offal for a pop-up event'
It was interesting enough to study Freud, sex, gender and the English language, says Patrick Galbraith, but looking back, he wonders if it was really worth the money.
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Jonathan Self: These are a few of my favourite things (audio version)
Forget bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens — Jonathan Self loves the sound of a burning log shifting in the stove and a tractor misfiring on its way up the lane.
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Minette Batters: We need to trade on a level playing field
After six years leading Britain's largest farming union, Minette Batters talks life after the NFU and why MPs of all parties need to take farming more seriously.
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Opinion: I'm a vicar — and an agnostic. Here's why that makes sense.
On the eve of Easter, the Revd Dr Colin Heber-Percy considers how asking ourselves a question to which we already know the answer, but which we may have forgotten, echoes the message of the Resurrection.
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Curious Questions: Why does our tax year start on April 6th?
The tax-year calendar is not as arbitrary as it seems, with a history that dates back to the ancient Roman and is connected to major calendar reforms across Europe.
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Carla Carlisle: 'Sometimes, repetition brings revelation'
Did we learn the lessons about Donald Trump from eight years ago? Probably not, says Carla Carlisle.
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Patrick Galbaith: If you don't keep using your local pub and butcher, you won't have a community worthy of the name
Patrick Galbraith laments those who complain about the price of beer in pubs and and beef in butchers — the real value is in keeping a sense of place.
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Curious Questions: Why does Easter move dates every year?
Phoebe Bath researches why exactly Easter is a called a 'moveable feast'.
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'Milk, butter, eggs and honey provide a healthy variety with which industrially processed, plant-based food can’t compete'
Country Life's columnist Agromenes believes the tide of public opinion is turning against vegetarian and vegan alternative foods.
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Jonathan Self: The peasants are anything but revolting
The people who worked the patchwork farms of Ireland until just a few decades ago are all but gone, laments Jonathan Self.
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'From the first page until the last, I was in another country, another world... It was like falling in love'
'There is beauty and there is poverty, order and corruption' — Carla Carlisle on Karen Blixen and Kenya.
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Curious Questions: Why don't we all agree on how to pronounce 'lieutenant'?
Martin Fone talks about one of the great quirks of language which divide Britain and America.
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Joe Gibbs: Even the patron saint of salmon can't save these fish from the seals
After a disastrous 2023 fishing season, Joe Gibbs is hoping for better.
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60 years of wisdom: 'Life is a zig-zag, a joyous adventure, and enhanced every day'
Country Mouse — in the form of Country Life's Editor-in-Chief, Mark Hedges — celebrates a special milestone.
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Patrick Galbraith: "'You sound clever, but you’re really stupit,' he told me. Buoyed by his charm, I stepped outside"
A happy Patrick Galbraith celebrates his engagement by tempting fate in inspiringly cavalier fashion.
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Jonathan Self: Work-life balance is tosh. Coleridge knew it, and so do I.
As his children enter the world of work, Jonathan Self muses on what that means
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Those 'who have ridden roughshod over men and women they should have protected must be held accountable'
Agromenes reflects on the Post Office scandal, and implores that we learn from the mistakes
