Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley is the author of The Evolution of Everything. He sits on the science and technology committee of the House of Lords.
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Plains of plenty
The Masai Mara has defied gloomy predictions of decline and still supports a thriving ecosystem as rich as it ever was
Playing the wild card
“Rewilding” is fashionable but there is more to it than letting Nature run free
Pleasures of sex and berries
Hart explains why we’re adapted to the environment we evolved in, rather than the one we inhabit
The Brexit boost for British bio-science
World-class laboratories have been freed from the dead hand of Brussels regulation
The plot against fracking
How cheap energy was killed by Green lies and Russian propaganda
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The untold story of Brexit
Part political history, part memoir, Matthew Elliott’s account captures the campaign that reshaped British politics
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
An indefensible defence policy
Why the country’s strategic ambitions are incompatible with our welfare bill
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
