4 DECEMBER 2004, page 20

The Hounds Of Heaven

Martin Vander Weyer joins the Ampleforth Beagles for a blameless day of good company and brisk exercise I took up beagling not as a political gesture but because my dog died.......

Theodore Dalrymple

Occasionally I walk home from the prison. Usually I take a taxi. Very rarely indeed do I drive; I don't much care for parking within a mile radius of an establishment from which......