Patrick Galbraith
Hunting for meaning
“Some woozy sage slumped next to you catches your eye, cueing a directionless odyssey through time and space. The following morning, while drinking your coffee, you are at loss to say whether the man—it is most often a man—had really cracked some great mystery of the mind or was just five spliffs deep”
The fraught eco-politics that leads to extinction
We stand to lose our most vulnerable species unless land managers and conservationists agree on tough strategies for their survival
Literary molehill
Marc Hamer, a retired mole-catcher and tweed-wearing existentialist, has led an unusual life and still isn’t quite sure who is he today
When the call of the wild can go too far
Radicals want to reintroduce predators to the British countryside. It would be wiser to learn more about the wildlife we already have
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