Environment
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…
My COP26 message: pay more dividends to save the planet
Climate emergency demands action, not rhetoric. So, on the eve of COP26, which UK news item promises to deliver the…
Promising the world
Will COP26 actually achieve anything?
Barometer
Filming fatalities The actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shot a cinematographer on set when mistakenly given a gun loaded with real…
Dirty green giants
What’s really behind the net-zero zealotry of big businesses?
The Spectator’s Notes
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…
Zero strategy
The commitment to reach ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050 is the most expensive government proposal in modern history. Yet it…
Letters
Doom and gloom Sir: The depressing article by Tom Woodman (‘You must be kidding’, 16 October) confirms my growing fears…
Step on the gas
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…
The Spectator’s Notes
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…
Talking rubbish
The fraudulent business of recycling
Letters
Levelling up Sir: In making the case for social mobility, Lee Cain unwittingly endorses the classism he hopes to fight…
Letters
Zero possibility Sir: Katy Balls is right to conclude that the government is ‘not being upfront’ on the bill for…
The green party
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…
The wrong reset
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…
