Environment
Hot air apocalypse
We need action on climate change — not more idle talk
The birds and the beef
Far from being an ecological enemy, cattle-grazing encourages natural diversity and helps in the battle to save some of our most endangered species
Will Starmer suppress dissent?
The riots should not be an excuse for a broader assault on civil liberties
The final death of left v. right?
Old political categories are losing their value
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
A bad man writes a worse book
Alastair Campbell’s new book is beneath the level of the bargain bin
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
We need to protect our digital rights
The curbing of dissident speech online should be opposed
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
Losing the crowd
In bullfighting, audiences can be as tough as animals
The Conservatives deserve credit on sex and gender
They were slow to respond to institutional capture — but they did respond