Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
