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SIR – I’m sure that, given a choice, everyone would prefer to eat the highest-quality food produced in Britain (report, March 27), but not everyone has the means. If the Government believes it’s safe to allow imports of food produced using methods that are banned in the UK, it should lift that ban. If it wants more wildflowers grown, it should use land that is not highly productive. Farmers are right to protest, but not because of trade deals and tariffs. The culprits are unjustifiable regulatio

John Winterburn finds a censored version of Jordan’s military history at the country’s national army museum.             &nbsp ...

AMMAN — The Hejaz Railway was “a monumental feat of engineering and a triumph of Islamic financing over Western capital, and the last desperate act of modernity of a failing empire”, according to a British researcher. “This railway enhanced the status of the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph to the world’s Muslims and threatened British interests in the Middle East and India. It was

The first pancake of the batch could be worse than the rest because of impatience or lack of pan seasoning – but not everyone agrees that it tastes terrible