What will Net Zero cost?
Extravagant plans for a greener country will provide cold comfort for ordinary people
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
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
Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation