Environment
The government’s net zero strategy doesn’t add up
The commitment to reach ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050 is the most expensive government proposal in modern history. Yet it…
Letters: How to feed the world
Doom and gloom Sir: The depressing article by Tom Woodman (‘You must be kidding’, 16 October) confirms my growing fears…
How the Tories have fuelled Britain’s energy crisis
Britain is caught in an energy crisis of the government’s own making. It is true that gas prices have spiked…
Meet Extinction Rebellion's latest offshoot
What have environmentalists got against commuters? Not for the first time a group of bedraggled climate nuts have taken their…
Is the world we value falling apart?
From time to time, people get worried and ask one another: ‘Is the world falling apart?’ I imagine this is…
Revealed: the BBC guide for covering climate change
Climate change is once again dominating the news agenda. A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that even if…
The danger of Boris Johnson’s eco-obsession
It is a notable feather in Nigel Farage’s cap that his new evening show on GB News has already become…
The fraudulent business of recycling
The fraudulent business of recycling
Letters: The veiled elitism of social mobility
Levelling up Sir: In making the case for social mobility, Lee Cain unwittingly endorses the classism he hopes to fight…
Letters: The true cost of the green dream
Zero possibility Sir: Katy Balls is right to conclude that the government is ‘not being upfront’ on the bill for…
The green games: the Prime Minister’s big plan to rebrand Britain
Boris Johnson’s Olympic ambitions for the COP26 summit
Britain’s battle to prevent ‘green protectionism’
The UK’s commitment to get to net zero by 2050 is going to require some difficult political choices. But it…
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…
Carrie Symonds and the cult of rewilding
Carrie Symonds is to join the Aspinall Foundation as its new head of communications, in a move very much on-brand…
Donald Trump has made showers great again
President Donald Trump is the best. I already thought he was great, but I became even more convinced of his…
Boris's green industrial revolution is doomed to fail
Boris Johnson’s ‘green industrial revolution’, which was announced this week, looks doomed from the outset. From our heating to how we…
Denial is not a strategy, Prime Minister
The psychodrama in No. 10 is badly timed. The government has used emergency powers to ban meetings, church services and…
What is the Great Reset?
The phrase has shot throughout the fringes of Right-Wing Twitter like a virus through a karaoke bar. According to Pauline…
The Trumpist agenda going forward
While Donald Trump appears to have lost the 2020 presidential election, Trump’s agenda of populism focused on the working class…
The ancients knew the value of the natural world
The ancients knew nothing about global warming, but they still reflected on the relationship between man and nature. In the…
Who’s excited about a Biden presidency?
‘You all…declare me dead. Guess what? I ain’t dead. I’m not going to die.’ That was Joe Biden back in…
Why fracking matters
Sigmund Freud famously noted that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. In the case of fracking, even Freud would…
How to stop trawling from trashing the North Sea
How to stop trawlers from trashing the North Sea
California burning
Oakland The air in Northern California was thick and yellow in November 2018. The hills were wrapped not in salty…
Extinction Rebellion's plan for eco-oligarchy
It is very rare (although not unprecedented) for law breakers to attempt to be law makers. But Extinction Rebellion is…
