Conservation
Conservatives must rediscover conservation
Britain’s natural beauty needs to be defended
How to do conservation on the cheap
There is much to be achieved by tinkering at the edges
Ruffling feathers
A new book on rural Britain takes flak for listening to the “wrong” people
The ancient pull of troubled waters
Would rivers be better treated by man if they are given legal or spiritual “rights”?
Open up the land
A few suggestions for increasing countryside engagement
Clusters’ last stand
Labour is threatening the cooperatives that make small farms viable
On Linden Green
The reverential nature writer
The Hunting Act: 20 years on
It was a law that has achieved precisely the opposite of its stated aims
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
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Is Keir Starmer failing?
To fail at something, he would have to do something
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used