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From the NS archive: Hay-making

14 June 1913: The secrets of a farm labourer’s life.

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27 June 1969: Why the best picnic is one eaten at home.

By Alan Brien

26 July 1999: Chiantishire may be the New Labour idyll of choice. But it has protection rackets, tax avoidance and…

By Quentin Letts

10 June 1994: Tony Blair is now unstoppable in the Labour leadership race. But he is still very much an…

By New Statesman

15 March 1985: To be a writer and to be black in Britain is to be in a corner.

By Ben Okri

6 September 1913: The daily paper is charged with a lack of intelligence, and assuming in its readers no power…

By New Statesman

1 July 1966: Being asleep in her own life, Beatrix Potter had her eyes wide open to the world outside…

By VS Pritchett

2 October 2000: The Conservative Party is turning its back on Essex Man and selecting once again the squire, the…

By Robbie Millen