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Who knows. But a posh and peculiar British magazine is thriving on it
Country Life magazine has ignored every major crisis—COVID, Ukraine, Iran—publishing pastoral covers (lambs, thatched cottages) while rivals raced to break news. Sustained readership signals structural demand for news-free content, a viable positioning gap for media and content platforms.
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The unusual pleasures of “Country Life”

Do you want 24 pots of slime? Or packets of pork scratchings?

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

Make the semi-desert bloom by enridging it

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

Parents swallow bad advice all too eagerly