In this issue

Green shoots of progress:
the trees we should plant.

How to survive family politics
Daily rations: what soldiers can teach us
Inside The Archers with baddie Justin

Seeing the woods for the trees

The Government has promised to plant 60 million trees by 2024. It’s a laudable aim, but there are taxing questions to answer about practicalities, such as funding, work force, which species, where to get them from and where to plant them, observes John Grimshaw

5 mins

A gentleman and a player

The actor on making an Archers villain loveable and being cast as a ‘slightly dodgy toff’

4 mins

Commanding silence

In the second of two articles, John Goodall looks at the post-Second World War restoration of Llandaff Cathedral and its outstanding collection of 20th-century furnishings

8 mins

Family politics

Family politics Descendants of famous MPs tell Eleanor Doughty what it’s like to grow up in a house where politics dominate the day to day

6 mins

For love or money

They have evolved from knapsacks to coin purses and to today’s card holders, but does the wallet have a future in our increasingly cashless society, asks Roderick Easdale

4 mins

Somewhere, over the rainbow

Things were going so well–but the health of the housing market before the coronavirus crisis hit indicates that it can and will recover

4 mins

In with the new(builds)

They’re energy efficient, with modern features and contemporary design, and you can move in straight away. Is now the time to buy new?

3 mins

It's a brave new world

Some plays seem to be standing up remarkably well to screening and even cast new perspectives on old favourites

4 mins

Isolation – How To Do It

With humour, impressive variety and a pertinent portrait of a doctor in plague-ridden 17th-century Italy, galleries are coming up trumps online

3 mins

Lustrous lives

Caroline Bugler is mesmerised by the work of a husband and wife who were among the most inventive artists of their generation

3 mins

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