Features
School of hard knocks
Young people need to be taught resilience, not how to revel in trauma and fragility
What will Net Zero cost?
Extravagant plans for a greener country will provide cold comfort for ordinary people
Such, such were the goys
Jonathon Green says the xenophobic 1920s novels that inspired his lifelong love of literature should not be cancelled
National distrust
Like the monasteries, the National Trust has long since strayed from its purpose. It’s time for reformation or dissolution
90 minutes a slave
Are re-enactments of the Underground Railroad culturally insensitive — or a tool to help America understand its history?
Playing the wild card
“Rewilding” is fashionable but there is more to it than letting Nature run free
The forgotten Mr Fox
Richard Negus says the cruel sentimentality of the Hunting Act scars the countryside to this day, but the biggest loser is the animal it purported to protect
The revolution might not be televised
Brexit has been blamed for the decline of the British press, but the mainstream media was broken long before we left the European Union
Memorials to the fallen of Covid
An act of quasi-guerrilla commemoration
A Valhalla of remembrance
The National Memorial Arboretum is an ambitious landscape of trees and statuary — but does it work?