Environment
What the new GCSE in global warming should teach
The new GCSE in global warming
How I finally learned to love my eco-home
How I finally learned to love my eco-home
The cynical brilliance of Boris Johnson's green conversion
Does Boris Johnson really believe, as he told COP26 a few days ago, we’re at ‘one minute to midnight’ on…
Where is the climate plan B?
The COP26 summit is unlikely to be an outright flop. There has been no shortage of drama, with speakersseeming to…
Why paying more dividends could save the planet
Climate emergency demands action, not rhetoric. So, on the eve of COP26, which UK news item promises to deliver the…
Cop out: Boris’s battle to save the climate summit
Will COP26 actually achieve anything?
What’s more expensive – petrol or fizzy drinks?
Filming fatalities The actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shot a cinematographer on set when mistakenly given a gun loaded with real…
What’s really behind the net-zero zealotry of big businesses?
What’s really behind the net-zero zealotry of big businesses?
The cold hard truth about heat pumps
When I went to Poland not long before Covid, I found a country more bitterly divided by a culture war…
Join: The Spectator's online COP26 summit
The two-week COP26 climate change summit starts this weekend, with 100,000 expected on a protest march in Glasgow. And tomorrow, we…
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…
