National Trust
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Cultural institutions are erasing Christianity
To obscure the role of Christianity in Britain’s heritage is to obscure Britain’s heritage
The National Trust should act its age
Our main heritage conservation charity wants to be down with the kids
How Evelyn Waugh saved the English country house
The improbable democratisation of an aristocratic institution
A year in review: the National Trust
Is the Great Fracas of 2020-21 over?
BlobWatch season approaches
The National Trust is well on its way to becoming another soulless corporate body
Restore Trust
Many members have decided to walk away and leave the National Trust to its fate. They need to come back
No place for young’uns
Why are pensioners the favoured customer of the National Trust?
National distrust
Like the monasteries, the National Trust has long since strayed from its purpose. It’s time for reformation or dissolution
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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
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
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.