Jerome Starkey

Were it not for the panes of glass in the gallery floor, visitors to Mandela: The Official Exhibition could be excused for trying to wipe their feet when they reach the prison bedrolls. The coarse...

As she marched across her country estate clutching a loudhailer, Tacky MacGregor had a surprising message for her older sister’s guests, who were taking potshots at pheasants. “Came Shoot burns...

Britain’s biggest bird-shooting organisations have boycotted a group set up to save endangered birds of prey. Five organisations representing Britain’s biggest shooting estates stunned...

When the Chinese shooting party arrived on Exmoor in white snow suits, designer jeans and baseball caps, the gamekeepers knew they would have their work cut out for them. The party were novices who...

The owner of a 700-acre estate in Norfolk plans to make it a condition of future pheasant shoots that the birds go into the food chain. Vaughan Smith, who owns the Ellingham estate in Norfolk, said...

The country’s ten biggest game shoots released 1.4 million birds for shooting last year — more than the smallest 3,000 shoots combined, analysis by The Times has found. Figures from the Department...

Game hunting is to many traditional country-dwellers a form of intimacy with nature. Properly conducted, the shooting of game birds, in particular pheasants, grouse and wildfowl, is not an act of...

The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness has been especially mellow this year. And a little bit groovy, too. Fungi experts have said that an unusually mild late autumn and early winter may have...

When Chris Smith first read about Virginia Woolf’s favourite walk something struck him as odd. According to her diaries, the writer would leave Monk’s House, which she shared with her husband...

Japan is to lift a ban on British beef and lamb that has stood since the height of the mad cow crisis in the 1990s. The deal is worth an estimated £25 million a year to British farmers but has...

Calls by the Green MP Caroline Lucas for a tax on meat have been met with disdain by the food industry. Ms Lucas used a speech at the Oxford Farming Conference to call for “serious consideration of...

Once prized across Britain for their meat and milk, only 170 Albion cows are still alive. But they could soon become a more familiar sight as farmers seek tougher, tastier and more environmentally...