Features

Extravagant plans for a greener country will provide cold comfort for ordinary people

The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity

Roger Scruton’s intellectual journey from Peterhouse, to a London college full of left-wing firebrands, from sophisticated intellectual soirées in Holland Park to a “bohemian blur” in Essex and a squalid Fleet Street pub

A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming

The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade

An ill-fated leadership campaign

Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership

The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes

The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account

Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII

France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist

The critics who are now lackeys of the art world

In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation