Hunting Ban
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Hitting the trail
What does the government have against rural life?
When the hunt is finally over
A rich and vivid rural culture is being destroyed by a government that does not understand it
The Hunting Act: 20 years on
It was a law that has achieved precisely the opposite of its stated aims
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt