John Constable
Dr John Constable is director of the UK charity Renewable Energy Foundation.
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions