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
The King’s Alchemist (Willowhayne Records)
This collection of British music is what they should be playing over the speakers at Heathrow Airport
Ties out, tattoos in
Whether ties are out or tattoos are in, there is a performative aspect that in both cases can hide a murkier if not awful truth
Vienna’s hapless missing link
Zemlinsky’s music is arresting and his ideas fertile and diverse, but he often goes unnoticed
Brexit has freed the EU
Now the brakes are off, the EU is morphing into a full-fledged transfer union
The modern age in lists
Plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off
Laughing laureate of Western decline
Michel Houellebecq’s prescient, mocking critiques of our debased modern world
Feminist fallacies: Women need to calm down
Feminists will only “chill out” when male violence and harassment is eradicated
Black to Front
Diversity is everywhere, but the BBC, the NHS, the Police and the Bank of England want more
Khrushchev – shoe banger for a superpower
On the 50th anniversary of his death – what should we make of Nikita Khrushchev?
Mission Accomplished!
It’s important not to try too hard to remember what was and wasn’t illegal during the various lockdowns