Mastering the Tong It Game the Best Way on GameZone
BY CSM STAFF WRITER Master the Tong It Game the Best on GameZone with smart strategies, rules, and all online variants for an exciting Filipino card experience. Tongits, a classic Filipino card game, has long been cherished for its fast-paced gameplay and strategic depth. Traditionally enjoyed in social settings across the Philippines, its popularity continues to thrive, especially with the rise of digital platforms like … Continue reading Mastering the Tong It Game the Best Way on GameZone
The Underground Man
BY STEPHEN PAX LEONARD Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is the Underground Man Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground is the pseudonymous monologue of a spiteful and bitter former government official who inherited a sufficient amount of money not to need to work again and devoted his life to vice. Dostoyevsky’s philosophical novella is concerned with the hypothetical utopia where all of man’s needs are met, where everything is safe … Continue reading The Underground Man
A Licence to Print Money
BY PAUL T HORGAN I inherited my Hewlett-Packard (HP) DeskJet 2600 from a relative. It’s a basic 3-in-1 printer. It can scan, print, and thus take photocopies. I also inherited the obligation to the subscription service for ink, which now costs over £4 a month. My main use of the printer was to scan texts, and very occasionally some printing. Yet if the printer was … Continue reading A Licence to Print Money
Anscombe and that BAFTA Incident
BY SEAN WALSH Before doing the relevant analytical deeper dive let me make two remarks, by way of qualification. First, the condition known as “Tourette’s Syndrome” should not be trivialised, and it’s not my intention to do so here; second, what I suppose we must call “BAFTAgate” (or maybe “f@@@@@g BAFTAgate”, given the subject matter) is the funniest thing to happen at an awards ceremony … Continue reading Anscombe and that BAFTA Incident
A Prayer for the Turning
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust this letter finds you watching the days lengthen and the first faint stirrings of life return to the hedgerows. March is a month of contradictions. It arrives with the promise of spring, yet it often bites with the teeth of winter. It is a time of hope, but also of impatience. The land is waking, but … Continue reading A Prayer for the Turning
Ruff and Tumble
BY ALLISON LEE Dogs are a massive part of many people’s lives, mine being no exception, and, whatever role the dog has, be it on the farm or smallholding, hunting, protecting and guarding, search and rescue, therapy and emotional support or quite simply as pets, all owners want their dogs to be warm and comfortable. United in their passion for dogs’ welfare, mother and son, … Continue reading Ruff and Tumble
Saltmarshe Hall
BY ROGER WATSON To describe anywhere as a ‘hidden gem’ is becoming a cliché, in the same vein as describing someone as a ‘national treasure’. There are so many hidden gems and national treasures now that we struggle to find the words to describe those places and people who are neither. But, in the case of Saltmarshe Hall, both ‘hidden’ and ‘gem’ apply in equal … Continue reading Saltmarshe Hall
The Great British X-odus
BY MURIEL SHORT How Musk’s Platform Is Losing Its Grip on the UK For nearly two decades, Twitter was the UK’s digital town square. It was where journalists broke news, politicians picked fights, and academics tested ideas. But since Elon Musk’s takeover and the rebrand to X, the platform has entered a state of serious decline. The numbers tell a brutal story. According to Ofcom, … Continue reading The Great British X-odus
Breathing New Life into Forgotten Floor Spaces in Rural Homes
Rural homes often include floor areas that remain bare and underused. Awkward alcoves, narrow hallways, and uneven corners can feel difficult to finish using standard carpet rolls. Carpet offcuts and remnants offer a practical way to bring warmth and comfort to these spaces without forcing unsuitable materials into challenging layouts. Country living often involves adapting older properties over time. Smaller carpet pieces allow homeowners to … Continue reading Breathing New Life into Forgotten Floor Spaces in Rural Homes
Big Farmland Bird Count
BY NICK PEARCE Farmers and landowners across the UK have been given a last-minute opportunity to take part in the national census of farmland birds, as the organisers extend the deadline due to adverse weather. The Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC), an annual event coordinated by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), will now run until March 1st, 2026. The extension comes after the … Continue reading Big Farmland Bird Count
An Ode to Pune
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The first thing you notice about Pune is that nothing has been erased. I don’t mean this in the sentimental sense—the sort of thing travel writers reach for when they want to make decay sound charming. I mean it literally. Walk from the Kasba Peth police station towards Shaniwar Wada and you pass through three centuries in about four hundred yards. The … Continue reading An Ode to Pune
Green and Pleasant Land
BY ALEXIA JAMES For decades, if you wanted to see the British countryside on screen, you had to sit through yet another dreary adaptation of a Thomas Hardy novel, all doom and gloom and women in bonnets looking miserable in the rain. But something rather wonderful has happened. The boot is now on the other foot, and our green and pleasant land has become the … Continue reading Green and Pleasant Land
Crimson Tide
BY NIALL MCPHERSON From the Fabian ‘Wolf’ to the Communist Fist, the Left’s Long Romance with Violence In a quiet corner of Lyon, a young man lies dead, his skull fractured by the boots of masked militants. Quentin Deranque, a nationalist student whose only crime was to stand in defence of women exercising their right to peaceful protest, has become the latest offering on the … Continue reading Crimson Tide
A Prayer for the Wallers
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust this Sunday finds you well, perhaps with the satisfying ache of a day’s honest work in your limbs. As I walk the footpaths this week, my eye is drawn to the boundaries that shape our landscape—those ancient ribbons of stone that trace the contours of our hills and mark the edges of our fields. There is something … Continue reading A Prayer for the Wallers
The Wheelchair Farmer
BY ALLISON LEE Farming is classed as one of the most dangerous jobs in the United Kingdom, with a higher death rate than any other profession—and it is not difficult to see why. The agricultural sector involves a range of serious risks, including those from heavy machinery, hazardous environments, livestock injuries, contact with harmful substances, and falls from height, among the most common dangers. It … Continue reading The Wheelchair Farmer
Badges of Distinction
BY NICHOLAS ENGERT I have always been fascinated by symbols, badges and logos. These designs act as a gateway to a sub world of brands, clubs and memberships. They confirm identity and belonging. In the days of beautiful cars – now sadly almost a distant memory – it was not unusual to see a car adorned with enamel badges. These badges indicated memberships of motoring … Continue reading Badges of Distinction
Are there Nazis in Devizes?
BY SEAN WALSH Like many people, possibly even the majority, I don’t have much time for Nazis. Norm MacDonald said of Hitler that he “didn’t really care for him at all”. I see no reason to disagree with this. There might have been some early years comedic opportunities but these had pretty much run dry by about 1933 and now seem very tired, very “been … Continue reading Are there Nazis in Devizes?
Predation, Evidence, Balance
Dear Editor, Recent peer-reviewed research shared by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust has cast new light on the mounting pressures facing some of the United Kingdom’s most cherished yet threatened ground-nesting birds. The study focuses particularly on lapwing and curlew, both of which now hold red-list status due to significant population declines that have alarmed conservationists across the country. The comprehensive investigation analysed camera-trap … Continue reading Predation, Evidence, Balance
The Lame Duck
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN There is a peculiar and necessary cruelty in the language we reserve for our exhausted public men. When we reach for the ornithological, we are not being poetic; we are being clinical. To be termed a ‘lame duck’ is to be diagnosed. It is to be marked not merely for failure, but for a kind of biological irrelevance. The image is precise: … Continue reading The Lame Duck
In Another State
BY ALEX STORY “You are 6’8.31” inches tall,” said the nurse. “We measured you just before the operation.” That’s 0.31 inches taller than I thought I was. “I keep on growing,” I smiled. The good news never stops, I thought, in a half-comatose state. In the practical world, there are really no advantages to being a giant. Rarely will you be fashionable or sit comfortably … Continue reading In Another State