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Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley

The Times

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Private landowners make better conservationists

The Duke of Norfolk is best known for presiding over the coronation as hereditary Earl Marshal, but what really gets him excited is a native farmland...

14.03.2024 20

The Spectator

Matt Ridley

Blue tits vs willow tits: a lesson in subsidies

I last saw a willow tit on my farm about a year ago. I’m searching for them again this spring, listening for their ‘chair chair’ calls, but I am...

29.02.2024 10

The Spectator

Matt Ridley

DNA profiling is a great British success story

Hardly a week goes by without a mention of DNA’s contribution to criminal justice. Last week Sandip Patel was convicted of killing a prostitute near...

22.02.2024 10

The Spectator

Matt Ridley

Virology poses a far greater threat to the world than AI

Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison...

23.11.2023 10

The Spectator

Matt Ridley

Any protest which threatens the Cenotaph is a travesty

Every year I lay a wreath a week early, because Blyth, my nearest town, was a submarine port. Submariners were banned from the first Armistice Day...

09.11.2023 4

The Spectator

Matt Ridley

Fools’ paradise / The new age of gullibility

Matt Ridley has narrated this article for you to listen to. Is the Loch Ness Monster real? Many thousands of people think so. ‘Existence...

11.10.2023 9

The Spectator

Matt Ridley

Ill wind / Why won’t Greenpeace admit that wind turbines may be killing whales?

Who cares about whales? Whales might be dying because of sonar surveying, but Greenpeace simply ignores the science that doesn’t suit it. So far...

14.09.2023 20

The Spectator

Matt Ridley

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