Conservation
Loving the countryside
Its future must be rooted in affection
Defusing conflict in conservationism
Ideological warfare is endangering British nature
The lives of other apes
How to think about our hominid cousins
The preserve of the forelock-tuggers
Modern Buildings in Britain offers an encyclopaedia of potential future losses
Treasure-houses of the nation
Britain needs to decide on the future of our great churches — and what we want them to be
Lions, lies and legislation
The harms of trophy hunting have been exaggerated
The case for a vocal king
Why Charles should speak his mind
Passion by the barrel
Meeting the new boss of London’s finest gunmaker
A bird-lover’s lament
Patrick Galbraith’s debut offers a quirkily enjoyable journey through a netherworldly Britain
New development will ruin the National Theatre
Make Architects’ disastrous plans risk destroying the character of the South Bank
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
Murders for May
Killings in the new Japan, family feuds in India and the novel menace of AI
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
Small talk and big asks
Men’s mental health is a serious matter — but it is wrong to expect people to be lifesavers
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
