The Pope is right about nature
Disagreements on different means of protecting the environment should not obscure the aim
No place on the ARC for environmentalism
Stewardship of nature is a proper and appealing conservative cause
The empty gap
The meaning of the felling of the Sycamore Gap
Loving the countryside
Its future must be rooted in affection
Defusing conflict in conservationism
Ideological warfare is endangering British nature
Meat and morals
Ethical carnivores need to start thinking like vegans
Old Labour blues
Could the future of conservatism be on the left?
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
Britain needs eccentric thought
Lewis Goodall is wrong about the “radicalisation” of the Tory right
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
