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?’
Greta’s very corporate children’s crusade
Behind the schoolgirl climate warrior lies a shadowy cabal of lobbyists, investors and energy companies seeking to profit from a green bonanza
The road to hell for the mentally incapacitated
The weasel words of disability rights may be well-intentioned, but they mask institutional cruelty and deprive caring parents of their say
Cry, the rapidly crumbling country
President Ramaphosa has won the election but his position is fragile: South Africa faces poverty, inequality and corruption almost entirely self-inflicted by the ruling ANC