Nature
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 welcome sound of silence
For three days I listened to nothing but birdsong, marvelling at the variety and the volume
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Albion’s re-enactors
Beneath Restore Britain’s rhetoric lies an impulse to retreat from history itself
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project