Letters: The Met Police’s double standards jar with fundamental British values
Plus: Tory election hopes; non-existent rural phone signal; sharing a taxi with Bobby Charlton; and the search for a Punch and Judy pupil
Plus: Tory election hopes; non-existent rural phone signal; sharing a taxi with Bobby Charlton; and the search for a Punch and Judy pupil
Plus: disgruntled Tories; the harm of lockdown; weight in rugby; a note from Philip Larkin; and the humble brilliance of Bobby Charlton
Plus: Tory By-election blues; HMRC harassment; straw bale farce; carol culture; and not being Welsh
Plus: safety of British Jews; handwritten notes; UK pensions; phone queues; woodpecker deterrents; Hull's poets; ridiculous phrases
Plus: lockdown lessons; Westminster and alcohol; housing crisis; Marx's reading room; stubborn woodpeckers; and mangled language
Plus: updating Mozart; censorship in the Senedd; making criminals pay; the point of Latin; and WB Yeats’s change
Plus: prison crisis; Labour's school plan; opera fallout; the best guitar riffs; and Lawrence of Arabia's work at RAF Bridlington
Plus: Labour’s housing plan; the Church’s fixation on net zero; the greatest guitar solos; Scotland’s future; and perfect roast potatoes
Plus: Civil Service hours; UK energy security; Lloyds' lunacy; unhelpful Heathrow; a virtuoso's solo; the King's new coins; bank closures
Plus: rotten vaping; electric car fires; a bench for the Sycamore Gap; Army housing reform; blackberry jam; and the power of Evensong
Plus: Labour and NHS reform; a forgotten hero of rock; the prodigal Church; realities of Heathrow; hanging on for HMRC; and pointless words
Plus: Labour’s economics; the homelessness crisis; Heathrow’s success; the surge in shoplifting; and rodents riding the Underground
Plus: driving theory tests; double-decker trains; dental deserts; running shoes; and Rollo the Count of Rouen
Plus: standing with Israel; NHS gridlock; policing shoplifting; the right trousers; low-cost rail schemes; and Henry V's reputation
Plus: what Labour needs to tell voters; heat pump laws; rotten NHS dentistry; double-decker trains; and Lord Rosebery's lover
Plus: Middle East crisis; migration after Brexit; powering electric cars; unreliable rail ticket machines; and a trouser shortage
Plus: Sunak emulating Blair; Natural England in a muddle; who pays for water company failure; a united Ireland; and a plucky apple tree
Plus: cigarette ban; West Country transport; deserted banks; bedbug busters; charging guests; gentler dramas; and bumper conker crops
Plus: addressing AI risks; heat pump noise pollution; unmanned railway stations; a Spanish lesson for John Lewis; and DIY sandwiches
Plus: UK bureaucracy; the prison crisis; problem plug; menopause labels; tired of Today; EV etiquette; stiff upper lips; cost of mail fails
Plus: regulating counselling and psychotherapy; John Lewis’s decline; Britain’s perverse nuclear policy; and the purpose of pubs
Plus: water companies' insult to customers; Welby's pulpit politics; phones in schools; parking apps; and a red card for Var
Plus: healthcare reform; schools during Covid; where HS2 should have started; sharing bathwater; and an early audition by Michael Gambon
Plus: Braverman's priorities; EU market-only membership; sluggish rural broadband; the case for zoos; and why Welsh wine is having a moment
Plus: Sunak changes gear; pupils missing school; why Clandon Park is in safe hands; artists improving with age; and an overworked robot
Plus: how to fix the GP system; knife crime in London; an alternative to HS2; in defence of PE; and the cost of non-alcoholic beer
Plus: SNP destruction of Scotland; Cracknell’s race for Colchester; Lucy Letby retrial; the National Trust’s lack of vision; and BBC sayings
Plus: Braverman on asylum; turning off the Today programme; standing charge scourge; and reasons to be thankful for the National Trust
Plus: a guarantee for armed police officers; speed limit costs; a way to boost Ukrainian morale; and mowing the lawn on a Sunday
Plus: the fate of Clandon Park; made late by Welsh speed limits; a problem with modern novels; junior doctor pay; and clinking at Versailles
Plus: appeasing Iran; the language of maternity; cheery cycling; the future of religious broadcasts; and in the trenches with Keith Floyd
Plus: junior doctors' duty; Russell Brand's online platforms; the case for 20mph speed limits; against the Enlightenment; and church beer