Trophy Hunting
Hanging my head with pride
There is immense beauty in deer in the field, venison on the plate, and deer heads on the wall
Ben Fogle: Pukka prince of fluff
His films are overrated, overindulged, and dismal
Plains of plenty
The Masai Mara has defied gloomy predictions of decline and still supports a thriving ecosystem as rich as it ever was
Bred to be killed
The Captive-bred lion industry has been under fire for some time and Unfair Game will only add weight to calls for its cessation
The true value of trophy hunting
When big game doesn’t pay, it is replaced by cow and plough
Most Read
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
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
