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Urban dwellers are the latest victims of the net zero crusade
Owners of properties in central London may each have to pay as much as £66,000 towards a new eco-friendly heating system
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Entitled cyclists are about to get even more insufferable
Giving this small, angry minority priority at traffic lights is the latest blow in the war on motorists
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The Romans make English vandals look well-behaved
Graffiti louts used to aspire to immortality. Now they seek short-term fame
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Badger huggers are the real enemies of British wildlife
We want to have a reasonable but not excessive number – animals must be kept in check so that no one species predominates
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There’s no point in rebuilding the Crooked House pub
The character of splendid buildings is never the same as they were before disaster struck
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Seagulls are totally out of control. It’s time to cull them
The birds have become a menace – and the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy is partly to blame
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The woodburning stove crackdown is hypocritical insanity
So what is their alternative? Gas? With prices sky high – you must be joking. Or is it electricity, when we can’t generate enough as it is?
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Boxing Day hunts appeal to our most natural sensibilities
Our species has always hunted and a knowledge of landscape, weather and wildlife is just as important to those who hunt now as it ever was
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If a roaring fire is now sinful, what is left of Dickens’ Christmas?
Chris Whitty's bizarre criticism fails to understand that a merrily blazing hearth warms the heart and home alike
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The Fourth Plinth is a manifestation of Britain's cultural self-hatred
The commission does not celebrate feelings of patriotism, togetherness and national pride, it denigrates Britain’s image
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Faceless council bureaucrats are the real threat to our urban trees
As an island nation, we should be ideally placed to keep foreign pests and diseases away from our cities' green lungs
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How Queen Elizabeth II spent her days in the country
Throughout her long life, Her Majesty reminded the world that horses, dogs and country walks are an essential part of the national psyche
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We face an insect apocalypse, and the eco-Left doesn’t care
The eco-Left perspective neglects what is occurring in our own gardens – when they are in fact part of the solution
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Let rainforests keep their parrots. Britain's unflashy birds suit us just fine
There is a reason we hold the likes of the house sparrow – now, alas, becoming rare – so dearly in our hearts
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Cancel culture? ‘We're on safe ground. We always try to find the stories of under-represented groups’
English Heritage’s chief Kate Mavor says the charity has reinvented itself, with a growing membership and renewed appreciation of the past