Environment
For Climate Alarmism, The Poor Pay The Price
Lord Stern’s new tract on global warming will help his Green allies to build their latter-day Tower of Babel, but renewables are irrelevant to megacities
Escape The Heat: Head To London’s Crow’s Nests
Ignore the advice of the freesheets handed out on the Tube. Why visit the hot spots in a city full of cool panoramic sanctuaries?
Let’s Get Buzzy
The politics of bees
Cool It
An Essay on Climate Change
Overrated: George Monbiot
How seriously should we take an Old Stoic who wants to reintroduce wild elephants to Britain?
ONLINE ONLY: Overpopulation and the Reality of Grandchildren
Should we be worried about population growth?
Weathering The Storm
Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker is a masterpiece of historical scholarship, but fails entirely in its stated aim of linking political disaster to a changing climate
ONLINE ONLY: Will Shale Gas Save the British Economy?
A tax windfall from fracking in the North East would merely delay the inevitable day of reckoning for a bloated public sector
Global Fawning
‘Obama’s proposed carbon tax will founder, but that won’t be the end of the alarmists’ agenda’
Gannet Earth
‘Even if it’s theoretically possible to sustain 10.2 billion people on the planet, is this what we aspire to as a species?’
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts