With no planes, clear skies, and spring in the air, there is no better time to become a twitcher 

No planes, clear skies, spring weather: There’s no better time to become a birder, with Mail cartoonist Paul Thomas’s guide. As Spring hits its stride, our parks, gardens and wild spaces are alive with birds of every kind — from chiffchaff and blackcap to goldfinch and bullfinch. If you’re lucky, you may glimpse a wheatear or … Read more

Twitcher at No. 10: Played for a fool by Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain’s staff worried

BOOK OF THE WEEK NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN’S LEGACY  by Nicholas Milton (Pen & Sword £25, 279pp) The wheel had turned, and, in a matter of a few weeks, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had gone from the hero promising ‘peace in our time’ to the villain whose attempted appeasement of the rapacious Adolf Hitler had failed. He … Read more