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Restaurant: Bumpkin, London W11

Authenticity can be an overrated ambition, it struck me over lunch at the hideously named Bumpkin. One appreciates the desire of its owner to honour the restaurant's heraldic motto, "For city folk who like a little country living." But when that slice of the bucolic experience revolves around a silage farm aroma on the stairs

Rowley Shoals: thriving Australian reef shows whats possible when ecosystems are untouched by hum

New study shows fishing restrictions across the archipelago helped sustain threatened species and biodiversity during a time of unprecedented decline What would a tropical reef look like if it could escape the man-made perils of global heating and overfishing?

They ransack our village for sport: one Palestinian farmers story of Israeli settler violen

As an Israeli minister calls for a Palestinian town to be wiped out, an olive farmer tells of living with fear in the West Bank Doha Asous is an olive farmer from a village near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. She is in Britain for Fairtrade Fortnight to talk about agriculture in Palestine and

Tim Dowling: dont be fooled, cats are actually pretty stupid

Our cat and dog get along unnaturally well, but the dog having a haircut has upset things Its easy to think of cats as being more intelligent than dogs, because whenever people come round, cats go upstairs and sleep until the guests have gone away, instead of hanging around in a doomed bid to ingratiate

Why Wham! were positively the most misunderstood group of the 1980s | George Michael

They wore their hearts on their sleeves and sang about being on the dole, so how did Wham! come to be regarded as the musical embodiment of Thatcherism? More than any other group, Wham! were regarded as an exemplar of high 80s, home counties Britain tanned and wealthy, hedonistic, defiantly apolitical in an age