On February 28, the day the Ukrainian President was humiliated by the American president in the White House, I was reading an old issue of the literary magazine, Granta, which I had picked up in ...

For India’s middle classes, environmentalists are not merely meddlesome busy-bodies, but possibly also agents of the West, paid to keep India underdeveloped.

In his 1994 book, The Age of Extremes, the celebrated Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm, wrote: “It is no accident that the main support for ecological policies comes from the rich countries and ...