Nature
The slow death of the New Forest
The New Forest today is treated as a playground to be bent to the whims of the visitors, rather than a reserve that must be cared for
The magic of Dawn Chorus
On International Dawn Chorus Day, there really is no sound lovelier than the competing noise of birdsong
Splendid isolation
Patrick Galbraith laments the increasing loneliness of rural life
Nature’s design
Gardens start with a pencil and paper says Hephzibah Anderson
The cacophonous Mr Chips
A good field guide, but it won’t make you fall in love with the gull next door
Trunk routes
Take your time, but do plant a tree, says Hephzibah Anderson
Wonderful call of the wild
Macdonald’s prose is full of resonance and beauty, apposite delicacy and memorable evocations, says Matthew Adams
Go on, go to seed
Let the plants do the work says Hephzibah Anderson
Pond life with Mum
Patrick Galbraith says water can be a great healer
Lapwings, Hyenas and Hares (Oh my!)
It’s amazing what you can encounter during an early morning jog
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Irreversible damage
Trans “healthcare” has been utterly discredited, but activists are undeterred by the evidence
Bad education
Under Labour a deeply ideological education sector could go very quickly and badly wrong
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
The NHS need not depend on immigration
The shortage of British trainees is the result of a political choice
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
A leadership bid you can’t refuse
Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
In defence of anons
Anonymous accounts did not cause the rioting, so why are they being blamed?
