The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY

IN AN attempt to counter the horrendous loss of wildlife as a result of population increase, urban spread and particularly the extensive use of intensive farming, there have been increasing calls for “rewilding.”
What does that term mean? Well, it involves an attempt to reintroduce animals and plants that used to be widespread but are today either extinct or facing extinction.
Can we, though, really bring back some of the diversity and variety of wildlife that our parents and grandparents knew or is it simply a utopian dream?

JOHN GREEN has doubts about the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act, once trumpeted by Tony Blair

JOHN GREEN is enchanted by the story of women’s farm work, both now and the the 1940s, that brims with political and social insight

JOHN GREEN welcomes a remarkable study of Mozambique’s most renowned contemporary artist

Despite the primitive means the director was forced to use, this is an incredibly moving film from Gaza and you should see it, urges JOHN GREEN