Bird Shooting
Having a rough time
If hunting is about communing with nature, rough shooting is a superior medium
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
Hunting ghost ponds
The loss of a rich wildfowl habitat
In a poet’s footsteps
A trip to Ted Hughes’s “loneliest place”
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain
The American founding is a case study in peaceful regime change
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Will capitalism end capitalism?
Artificial intelligence is perverting the logic of our economic and political systems
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators