Eat for victory

Glasgow, 1942. The Carl Rosa Opera Company was in town to perform Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Tickets had been snapped up by local people – including many who didn’t really know what an opera was. The

“All government leaders know what to do. They just don’t know how to get re-elected if they do it.” Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, said little of note in his pol

STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Our columnist fondly recalls her childhood Christmases – apart from the time the milk ran out!

Seventy years ago, the Goverment promised farmers that it would help them ‘wring the last ounce of food from the land’. Will we hear those words again?

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