Carbon carnage: the real cost of grouse-shooting
‘Grouse moors are burnt and drained. Regenerating native trees are rooted out. Bogs and mires, wet miracles of carbon capture, are trashed by fire,
Canada’s election takes the shine off Trudeau
Justin Trudeau has been exposed as one of the weakest and most ineffective leaders his country has ever known
A writer diminished
"Defenders of Leonard Woolf’s wife, Virginia, have turned her into a heroine, even a victim, and diminished his formidable achievements"
An explosive error
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Austrian writer Peter Handke—infamous for defending the regime of Slobodan Milošević—the world was astonished
A multitude of dignities
Are human rights dependent on “human dignity”—and what does “human dignity” even mean?
A glimpse of heaven
Schumann’s setting of Faust is an aesthetic and spiritual triumph—and now with a singer to match
Empty labels
'To eat less soya, eat more of it. The paradox bites only on those who are unaware of how much soya is contained in
Don’t venerate the nation state
‘The nation state is not the endpoint of history, nor is it even a basic fact of human history’