Climate change
Unhappy blend of melodrama and allegory: Southwark Playhouse’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice reviewed
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is a musical fantasy set in a Nordic town near the Arctic circle. Johan is a magician…
The good news on climate
As I watch the snow blow past my window, it’s hard not to scoff at the idea of a ‘climate…
The elitism lurking at the heart of the green movement
There’s a movement in the UK that is trying to block the building of essential new council housing. It is…
California burning
Oakland The air in Northern California was thick and yellow in November 2018. The hills were wrapped not in salty…
What we can learn from Sweden
It is a particular pleasure to be returning to the columns of The Spectator, more than half a century after…
An environmentalist's apology: ‘I was guilty of alarmism’
This article was originally published on Forbes website, but subsequently taken down. On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like…
Tree-ring analysis has solved many historical mysteries
History is only as good as its sources. It is limited largely to what has survived of written records, and…
France's citizens' climate convention has come back to bite Macron
Those of us who are sceptical about the worth of citizens’ assemblies have been noting with interest the upshot of…
Faith, hope and charity: how I survived coronavirus
I write this on Easter Sunday, sitting comfortably at home, recovering from my brush with Covid-19. I was hospitalised for…
Revealed: Extinction Rebellion’s plan to exploit the Covid crisis
Extinction Rebellion sees coronavirus as an ‘opportunity’
Mother nature is finally getting the art she deserves
Exhibitions about fungi, bugs and trees illustrate the depth, range and vitality of a growing field of art, says Mark Cocker
Why I've lost respect for Jeremy Clarkson
If Jeremy Clarkson had lived through the Wars of the Roses he would have been neither a Yorkist nor a…
Eco-friendly is not female-friendly
Eco-friendly is not woman-friendly
Is climate change making the weather more windy?
Heathrow’s nine runways When was a third runway for Heathrow first proposed? Heathrow was always planned to have multiple runways.…
Why Spectator readers are the nicest people
Gstaad It feels like a sepia-tinged melodrama, one directed by the great schlock master Sam Wood. Driving along the winding…
It’s time for an honest debate about the cost of net zero
When the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) launched its report on the feasibility of entirely decarbonising the UK economy, we…
Who actually goes on a cruise?
Breeding controversy A Downing Street aide, believed to have been recruited as a result of Dominic Cummings’s advert for ‘weirdos…
The perils of owning an erotic Nazi toy
My parents told me that their wartime childhoods were punctuated by the expression: ‘Don’t you know there’s a war on?’…
Letters: Britain can be zero carbon – but only by becoming poorer
A green and poor land? Sir: Your editorial (8 February) is a timely warning about what the government’s headlong drive…
Boris must have the courage to spell out the true cost of ‘net zero’
After being sacked as the chairman of the COP26, the UN climate conference which is to take place in Glasgow…
The real reason Glasgow’s UN climate summit will be a nightmare
Regardless of one’s views on climate change, one should welcome the fact that Boris Johnson removed Claire Perry O’Neill from…
I won’t be applying to be director-general of the BBC
Despite huge public pressure, I shall not be applying to be director-general of the BBC. It was kind of Tony…
David Attenborough is making the same mistake as Greta Thunberg
It wasn’t so long ago that Sir David Attenborough came across as a calm voice of reason. His much-admired documentaries…
In Iowa, Democrats tell farmers no new jobs until Greta Thunberg is happy
We were four minutes in, somewhere on the outskirts of Mideast foreign policy, when the boredom began to take hold.…
Our tree-planting obsession may do more harm than good
‘Four beef burgers is the same as flying to New York and back! FOUR BURGERS!’ When I arrived at the…
