Environment
Acid trip
Another pillar of climate alarmism is looking distinctly wobbly
The cult of clean
It starts with tidying your sock drawer. It ends with emptying your mind
Trudeau family values
Justin Trudeau has his mother’s good looks – and his father’s dodgy economics
The song of the whales
How humanity learned to love them – and what we learned about ourselves in the process
Peak
Near Victoria Station in London they began to build a tower-block advertised as ‘The Peak’. I expected it to resemble…
. . . and I won’t be Boris Mark II
Zac Goldsmith explains how he will sell himself to a city that’s now solidly Labour
A Supreme Court justice and the scary plan to outlaw climate change
How do you make an imaginary problem so painfully real that everyone suffers? It’s an odd question to ask, you…
We let programmers run our lives. So how’s their moral code?
A few years ago, in the week before Christmas when supermarket sales are at their highest, staff at one branch…
VW and the truth of engineering: say what you do, do what you say
Not that I was much of a boy racer, but the sexiest car I ever owned was a 1982 Volkswagen…
Where there’s smoke…
A fixation on carbon emissions will produce many more scandals like the one that has shamed Volkswagen
My obsession with litter is bordering on mental illness
It’s no good. I’ve tried to resist it, but I’ve succumbed. I’m now a full-blown litter Nazi. Whenever I leave…
Green with rage
Environmental nannying is wrecking my beloved Bristol
Diary
Martin Williams, former head of the government’s air quality science unit, has declared that the reason we have a problem…
My part in a masterpiece of political correctness
Damien Hirst, Grayson Perry, James Delingpole: all winners of major art prizes. I was awarded mine last week by Anglia…
Miliband country
A ‘progressive alliance’ would be a profound threat to rural life
Between the floods
As the climate changes, will we? The story of the little ice age suggests that adaptation will take years of suffering
Diary
‘Please God, make me good, but not yet.’ I know the feeling. As I get older and more deeply retired,…
Don’t blame the blob
Owen Paterson shouldn’t hold green activists responsible for his sacking. The culprit was David Cameron
Nuclear fallout
Britain is about to buy the world’s most expensive power station
Barometer
Fat chances The National Obesity Forum said that Britain is reaching a ‘doomsday scenario’ where half the population is obese.…
Ship of fools
Eco-warriors stranded in the Antarctic! It’s too good to be true
Carry on warming
The current scientific consensus is that climate change is doing more good than harm
Meet the real scourge of the English countryside
I’m off to Balcombe this weekend. In fact I might even carry a placard and paint my face with a…
Great creator and sharer of wealth? Maybe, but Mr Rich was also a terrible role model
Marc Rich, the godfather of global commodity trading who died last week, ‘deserves credit as one of the greatest creators…
