Climate
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
