Chanel
The art of Caspar David Friedrich
In our brave new world of modern art, there’s a growing appetite for celebrating the mystery of the natural world
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
NatCon lives on
The conference has gone ahead in Brussels despite protests and police action
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient