Country diary: On harvest open day, celebration, relief – and flying gazebos
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Boris Johnson’s integrity nowhere to be found in leaked files
Allotments are a safe space in times of crisis
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Keir Starmer’s delivery is one nobody wants
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Why our neighbours became good friends
‘I joined every list’: the gruelling search for a Glasgow allotment
Massive disparity in availability of allotments across UK, analysis reveals
August 2025
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Not monsters, but truly monstrous
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Defeated by drought: my bean-growing efforts have failed after 40 years of success
Allotments are hard work and fickle, but joyous too
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Suffragettes and Palestine Action
The one change that worked
The one change that worked: I gave up my allotment – and accepted who I really am
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Digging up ideas for Jeremy Corbyn’s new party
Yes, I know my potatoes, Dariel
Digested week
Digested week: Allotment folly, the trolley problem and gen Z bedtimes
Lucy Mangan
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Does Jeremy Corbyn know his potatoes?
Jeremy Corbyn warns rules on council asset sales threaten allotments
July 2025
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Is this a dagger which I see before me, King Charles?
Brief letters: Weapons and tools | Nigel Farage | Oracy in schools | Resomation | Voyaging’s not for me
June 2025
Country diary
Country diary: Last spring feels a long time ago in the allotment
Hove, East Sussex: The blackbird parents have food to feed chicks, hoverflies are booming and the peacock butterflies are back. Everything may be precarious, but this is all welcome
April 2025
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Ruffling feathers on the allotment
Brief letters: Problem pigeons | Tyrants rule | Cheap pints and coffees | Cliff Richard | Digital help
