ALAN SIMPSON offers a few pointers on dealing with the ongoing, Trump-led destruction of the norms of a rules-based international order established post-WWII
I’M just in love with all these three, /The Weald and the Marsh and the Down countree./ Nor I don’t know which I love the most, /The Weald or the Marsh or the white Chalk coast!
Thus wrote Rudyard Kipling about the place he chose to live out his later life. His house Batemans was where East Sussex meets Kent — the Garden of England.
Late each summer, but not too late, we head for this part of the world, not to just to enjoy memories of the man who is, for me at least, England’s greatest poet but with a much more prosaic purpose.
MAT COWARD takes a look at some of the options for keen gardeners as we enter 2026
JAMES NALTON on Munyua’s stinging success at the World Darts Championship
The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE
ALEX DITTRICH hitches a ride on a jaw-dropping tour of the parasite world



