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Now up on the Spectator books blog: why did Dig for Victory die out so fast? http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/blog/7749073/the-scramble-fo...

The strange revival of the allotments movement in the UK may mark the unexpected revival of a very old, but lost political tradition - the E...

I met Ted Howard earlier in the week, but sadly missed his seminar last night.  On the other hand, and thanks to him, I do now feel geared u...

We have heard so much in the last few weeks of desperate pre-budget lobbying about how another runway at Heathrow would kickstart what they ...

Why have allotments become so trendy? Where did the idea come from that everyone could have a plot of land to grow their own food? Allotme...

The brilliant Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk suggested a few months ago that the banks were the ‘Dictators of the West’ – the parall...

The story about the Queen on the Today programme this morning confirmed something I have thought for some time.  Robert Hardman of the Dail...