Matt Ridley
Lose some, win more
‘Beauty is pain,’ the model Gigi Hadid asserts. She’s one of the successful, rich people quizzed by William Leith in…
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…
The Spectator’s notes
The ‘remain’ campaign is having some success with the line that the ‘leave’ camp cannot say what Britain outside the…
The best things in the world spring up by accident
Since no one has bothered to ask what my must-read book of last year was I’m going to tell you…
The Spectator’s notes
An enjoyable aspect of parliamentary rules and conventions is that almost no one understands them. This has become acutely true…
The luckiest kids in history
The statistics speak for themselves. Today’s gilded generation is the most blessed that ever lived
Ideas that breed
A 14-year-old at an American school recently caused a stir when he claimed that the US government could save over…
