Climate Change
Tolkien and environmentalism
The author of The Lord of the Rings despaired of the modern world
A world of hurt
The UN must act before it’s too late
Some like it chilled
Summer is the perfect time for cold soup
Hot air apocalypse
We need action on climate change — not more idle talk
Extinction Rebellion, handmaiden of technocracy
There’s nothing natural about the environmentalism of modern eco activists
Brought to light
May the reprieve of Westminster’s gas lamps become a full pardon
Stop posing. Start drilling
Our current energy crisis confronts Net Zero-loving elites with the stark reality
Too woke to travel write?
Perhaps a little less introspection will see a renaissance of the troubled genre
Man up, President Xi
Why not flip the script, and let China lead the world out of the climate crisis?
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
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
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
