woodland
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
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President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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
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.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Britain’s AI gamble reeks of desperation
The government is betting it all on AI — it could lose our trousers
Progressivism and the police
The Diversity, Equality and Inclusion agenda promised a fairer form of policing, but has delivered a weaker one
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author