A countryside for all

Patrick Galbraith wants shooters and mushroom heads to get along

IT WAS ONE OF THOSE dinner parties that didn’t feel like it was going particularly well. Someone had just broken up with their girlfriend for want of someone else; my little puppy wouldn’t stop howling in the hall, and one of our guests was strung out after a hard week. They’d been taking lots of psychedelics in the hope that it was going to cure a long-standing malady but it sounded as though the cumulative microdosing had brought on a pretty macro state of worry. I poured more wine and tried to bring the whole thing down a bit by mentioning a book I’m working on about land access and the complicated fight for the countryside. “I think we sometimes forget,” I said vaguely, “about working people in rural Britain.”…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2023

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