Lisbet Rausing
Britain is becoming a wet desert
‘Two-fifths of our rivers are man-made canals: dug down, dredged, and separated from their flood plains’
The promise of protein from the seas
‘Forget sponges, corals, sea fans, and sea weed: ancient, blossoming sea forests and coral reefs are now Flanders trenches’
What we owe to insects
‘Entangled with their host plants, insects are helpless as we fragment and destroy their habitats’
Carbon carnage: the real cost of grouse-shooting
Moors have become, in effect, unregulated farms. This dying terrain radiates extraordinary amounts of carbon dioxide
Empty labels
‘To eat less soya, eat more of it. The paradox bites only on those who are unaware of how much soya is contained in the meat they eat’
China has a strategy and Britain doesn’t
A roadmap to better relations requires realism. Beijing’s interests and goals are openly stated—if you know where to look
The plague
Standpoint goes to press as the pandemic rages. So too does the search for blame and the political fall-out
Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics