Trees
Sycamore Gap and Britain’s sacred trees
Why has one tree inspired such emotion?
Failing to see the woods for the trees
There is little wonder the Government is falling so dismally short of its tree-planting targets
Trunk routes
Take your time, but do plant a tree, says Hephzibah Anderson
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Do the arts need policy?
Decoupling creativity from policy might give art ambition again
It’s called X, not XXX
Elon Musk is wrong to open the door to porn on X
Toxic relationship
For a long time, it has seemed that you’re nobody until somebody’s tried to get you cancelled
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
Sweet vengeance could turn sour
Anti-Conservative right-wingers should be careful what they wish for
The intimacy of thoughts
An excess of technology burdens a cerebral adaptation
The end of high quality homes
Michael Gove’s new leasehold reforms risk derailing the economic engine that helped finance some of Britain’s finest suburbs