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Peter Rhodes on mulch, tortoises and a variant on the four-day working week

Star columnist Peter Rhodes gives his views on some of the hottest talking points - do you agree?

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A giant tortoise
A giant tortoise

The Student Loans Company reports that almost a million people who took out loans have not started repaying them. Any shortfall will eventually be paid by hard-pressed taxpayers already facing the cost of living crisis. We will starve by degrees.

On Remembrance Sunday the BBC could have used its Radio 4 Appeal to support any number of service-related charities. But with its finger firmly on the pulse of public opinion, it chose instead to give us Stephen Fry appealing for money to help giant tortoises in the Galapagos Islands. Good old Auntie.

A giant tortoise
A giant tortoise