MiddlelandRory Stewart spent nearly a decade as a MP of Britain's most rural constituency, Penrith and the Border. As he came to know and love this part of Cumbria, he found inspiration in the beauty of its landscape, its rugged history as a frontierland, and in the spirit of its people. Drawing on pieces originally written for a local newspaper, 'Debatable Land' is an unforgettable portrait of rural Britain today a place caught in tensions between farming and

In March 2020

It is an adventure at odds with our normal

But my eyes are so bad now

Only the strongest soldier could maintain control

heritage and wonder

bankrupts given a chance to make good

And that's all they've ever needed - or wanted

we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life

some of which seem to have been occupied for only a few years

solve the clues and travel round the country on the trail of a mysterious treasure

A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics

Thanks largely to YouTube clips posted by the sloth orphanage in Costa Rica