Conservation
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
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
An Ode to Autumn
Here is to the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
No place on the ARC for environmentalism
Stewardship of nature is a proper and appealing conservative cause
Queering nature won’t save it
We should stop projecting our fashionable concepts onto the natural world
Sycamore Gap and Britain’s sacred trees
Why has one tree inspired such emotion?
The empty gap
The meaning of the felling of the Sycamore Gap
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Keir-y-e-Liason
Rob tries to stay awake at the Liazzzzzzon committee
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
The shame of the Oxford Union
A debate on Israel and Palestine was a disgrace
