Natural England
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The sectarian state
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the Balkanisation of Britain
We need a pro-natal culture
Changing our demographic future will require a new attitude towards having children
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get