Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Let’s start a new chapter for independent bookshops
We must do more to protect businesses that are not just essential for readers but for local communities
What farmers want
What the next government can do to win back the trust of agriculture
British sporting art
Two views of the same country
Rural revolt
British farmers are growing increasingly disillusioned with politics and politicians
The ancient pull of troubled waters
Would rivers be better treated by man if they are given legal or spiritual “rights”?
Clusters’ last stand
Labour is threatening the cooperatives that make small farms viable
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
The party of retailers
Labour’s drift from its union roots reveals the party no longer knows what — or who — it is for
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
We need a pro-natal culture
Changing our demographic future will require a new attitude towards having children
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state