Environment
Plastic? Fantastic!
The surprising virtues of the most abhorred material
Kiwi shoe polish and civilisation
To dress respectably is to dress respectfully
A School of Place?
Wrong answers to good questions on urban design
Brussels sprouts protectionism
It’s no longer a dirty word in the EU
Blood and soil: the Greens’ fascist roots
Today’s environmental movement owes much to the ideology of Britain’s pre-war Right
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
Most Read
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal