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
The sadder side of summer
Tragedy struck Gustav Mahler, the archetypal summer composer, in 1907
The perils of false victimhood
The Critic and Policy Exchange think right-wing academics are being censored. They’re wrong
The shifting sands of British tribal loyalties
Nick Cohen detects a seismic electoral change based on identity, age and education
Who teaches Poles and what does Poland teach us?
Western lessons to be learnt from the Polish presidential election
Billy Liar was fiction’s first OCD hero, yet nobody noticed
Rev Steve Morris revisits Keith Waterhouse’s forgotten classic
Normal Cervix Resumes
The BBC cancels Mermaids, time is racist, Nasa goes woke, and 2 + 2 = 5
The SNP is winning. What is the plan to stop them?
Nicola Sturgeon runs rings around her Scottish opponents. But are there stronger adversaries in Whitehall?
The Grand Tour – what the British got up to abroad
Looking back on the Georgian European vacation with the historian Jeremy Black
Psychosis in an age of surveillance capitalism
Can an app help treat mental health issues?
Transforming the elite
Independent schools can do more to boost social mobility – but what they’re currently doing won’t work