Environmentalism
The new Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker is a delight – but the script isn't
You won’t be aware of this because the BBC has been keeping it very quiet. But the new Doctor Who…
Powerfully – grippingly – puzzling: First Reformed reviewed
Paul Schrader’s First Reformed is slow, churchy, cerebral, bleak, difficult, tormented and puzzling, which is always a blow. So exhausting…
This V&A show, about fashion’s fascination with the natural world, will seduce and appal
Melanie McDonagh is seduced and appalled by a show about fashion’s fascination with the natural world
A convoluted tale of eco-angst and earth-mother cant: Royal Court's The Children reviewed
What if? is the engine of every great story. What if the toys came to life when their owner left…
Gloriously compulsive and maddening: Adam Curtis’s HyperNormalisation reviewed
‘Adam Curtis believed that 200,000 Guardian readers watching BBC2 could change the world. But this was a fantasy. In fact,…
The slow death of environmentalism
Would you describe yourself as an ‘environmentalist’? I would, mainly to annoy greenies, but also because it’s true. If your…
I offered Zac Goldsmith £50 to stay 20 feet away from me
I once tried to bribe Zac Goldsmith with a £50 note, but he didn’t bite even back then. He was…
My eco-home nightmare
Buying an eco-home? Expect stifling springs and summers
The Green party isn’t nearly tough enough on Ancient Greece
The Green party’s manifesto appears to make saving the planet only a small element in its otherwise painfully unoriginal agenda.…
Calling the Green party socialist is an insult to socialists
The Green party has been likened to a watermelon: green on the outside and red on the inside. But that…
The darkest secret about commuting: some of us enjoy it
In the early days of Victorian railways, train journeys were (rightly) considered so dangerous that ticket offices sold life insurance…
Does Ukip believe in anything any more?
I’m worried about Ukip. It’s possible that my concerns are entirely misplaced but let me give you some examples of…
Tim Rice’s diary: From Eternity to here
Last October, in these very pages, I wrote with what is now annoying prescience, ‘Like almost everyone else in the…
Spectator letters: Wind and bias, and the Scots at war
Caution over wind Sir: While the broadcast media have assailed their audiences with simplistic yet blanket coverage of the floods…
The Environment Agency cares more about wildlife than people
The Environment Agency may not be much use to humans, but it does great things for the depressed river mussel
You, too, can be a shale profiteer
Here’s how to get a slice of the fracking action
The martyrdom of Mark Steyn
When I first read, many months ago, that the notorious US climate scientist Michael Mann was suing the notorious right-wing…
How the MPs' expenses scandal proved the wisdom of Alain de Botton
Whenever I’m tempted to pretend to be nicer so that fewer people hate me, I remember my old friend Alain…
Why we should let Faroe islanders hunt whales
Marine charities should stop obsessing about a few Faroe islanders and go after the real villains
Agitprop for toddlers: the oddly strident politics of CBeebies
The oddly strident politics of CBeebies
Why climate change is good for the world
The current scientific consensus is that climate change is doing more good than harm
Am I politically correct enough to stand for Ukip?
A few weeks ago I drove to Market Harborough for my test as a potential Ukip candidate. The process was…
Why you shouldn’t believe the green attacks on Ben Fogle
Just because the environmentalists have been proved so epically wrong about global warming doesn’t mean they’re right about everything else.…
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