Letters: Public disillusionment with politicians is the real story of this election
Plus: Elusive state school places; Sir Keir Starmer’s working day; seagull deterrents; Land Rover scourge; and Wimbledon hairstyles
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Plus: Elusive state school places; Sir Keir Starmer’s working day; seagull deterrents; Land Rover scourge; and Wimbledon hairstyles
Plus: England at the Euros; replacing the Lords; hospitality towards German PoWs; hectoring Tube posters; and a raging gull
Plus: Exit Assange; the BMA and Israel; feeding wild animals; Labour’s NHS plan; and returning the dogs of war
Plus: Scrapping the Lords; Farage’s hollow history; home-schooling; hungry PoWs; and banking glass bottles
Plus: Painting postboxes; museum masks; the Troubles Act; trans children’s battle; and parking app pains
Plus: The Boris blight; taboos at Pitt Rivers Museum; Swiss standards; police cruelty; Dr Johnson’s cat; and Harold Wilson at sea
Plus: Turning off oil and gas; inspirational princess; the wit of Harold Wilson; policing animals; and Britain’s unloved pillar boxes
Plus: the human costs of lockdown; punitive stamp duty; defining ‘working people’; Nigel Farage’s fanbase; and marmalade droppers
Plus: Schools in peril; Americans for Trump; salmon farming; Israel’s rescue mission; overgrown road signs; and brilliant beouf
Plus: elusive dentists; microchips for pets; Labour’s hot air; the pitfalls of veganism; and the king of literary comedy
Plus: The new centre-Right; how ugly houses get built; the case for veganism; toothbrushing in schools; and Martin Amis’s finest book
Plus: Positive green policies; waiting for probate; slapdash housebuilding; and a dangerously sweet tooth
Plus: Dr Mosley’s legacy; childbirth pain relief; surveillance society; Labour’s plan to punish hard-working parents; and a war on error
Plus: Hamas’s tactics; mourning Dr Michael Mosley; Sunak’s D-Day error; small boat crossings; and tasty Bedfordshire clangers
Plus: The flaws in first past the post; D-Day pride; Trump the felon; tough French beef; and luggage in advance
Plus: Labour’s Palestine pledge; silent Normandy heroes; how to move house with a life’s worth of books; and not-so-local ale
Plus: Tea with General Patton; cancer testing failures; security at Wembley; too many books; and the evolution of croissants
Plus: Farage’s tactics; victory over potholes; skilful Sunak; and Antarctic adventures
Plus: D-Day courage; the benefits of private schooling; Britain’s double-decker trains; flares in stadiums; and children’s creativity
Plus: Labour’s VAT raid on private schools; the choice facing US voters; why tourism matters; Nelson Mandela’s legacy; and roads gone to pot