Nature’s design
Gardens start with a pencil and paper says Hephzibah Anderson
Black gold
Compost is the heart of a garden, says Hephzibah Anderson
Trunk routes
Take your time, but do plant a tree, says Hephzibah Anderson
Acts of faith
Hephzibah Anderson plants her spring bulbs
The great indoors
Don’t scoff at the fad for houseplants says Hephzibah Anderson
Go on, go to seed
Let the plants do the work says Hephzibah Anderson
A thorny problem
Hephzibah Anderson battles bristly oxtongue
A rose for a tight spot
Hephzibah Anderson scents success in a pot
Green shoots
Hephzibah Anderson heads for the allotment
What Boris Johnson told the ’22
Digs at Nicola Sturgeon and an end to lockdown “before the tulip season is over”
Why can’t we have a good film of Noël Coward’s plays?
If one judged the playwright solely on the film versions of his work, one might be forgiven for believing that he had never been particularly accomplished
What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?
Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart
Long nights and northern lights: a journey to Arctic Russia
The polar cities of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk somehow attract a hardcore of visitors for whom winter isn’t a dirty word
The remarkable career of Christopher Plummer
Cinema, theatre and the world will be poorer for no longer having Christopher Plummer as a part of them
Dominic Hilton’s Buenos Aires diary 4.0
In the fourth instalment of his diary, Dominic Hilton tries to understand Argentina’s ‘redhead curse’
Bad law in a good cause
Who should determine Britain is trading with a genocidal regime – international judges? British judges? Or the British government?
On nodding terms
Thomas Woodham-Smith says the most vocal customers rarely buy
Why is anti-semitism the last acceptable form of bigotry?
Just like Covid-19, this new, virulent strain of anti-Semitism will prove hard to dispel, and no vaccine will be available to act as a panacea
NHS propaganda
No rainbow-painting child could possibly understand the relative performance, good or bad, of the NHS