Pick of the bunch
Garden flowers are for posies
The potting shelf
You can grow without a garden
The rule of sixty
Save your shrubs with a slug pub, says Hephzibah Anderson
Training nature
Hephzibah Anderson reveals how RHS Bridgewater illustrates some of the tensions inherent in our newfound appreciation of what remains a highly curated kind of nature
Rites of spring
The roar of the mower is a sign of life, says Hephzibah Anderson
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
The King’s Alchemist (Willowhayne Records)
This collection of British music is what they should be playing over the speakers at Heathrow Airport
No sex, please, you’re unvaccinated
The puritanical streak in the British character has gone into overdrive with Covid-19
Land and sea: the global reach of Britain’s armed forces in the nineteenth century
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the reach and organisation of Britain’s armed forces in protecting and expanding the British empire
The Piedmontese job
Enjoying the silky and lean Italian Fassona beef in Turin and Kensington
Vaccine for the soul
As Britain is about to declare victory over the virus, Christopher Pincher enjoys a Latour-Bellona
Freedom is fruitless
Young people have suffered enough — don’t force them to have vaccine passports to do the things they enjoy
Inside the new gender critical research network
Olivia Hartley and Dr Jon Pike talk about setting up the UK’s new network for gender-critical academics and the inclusion of transwomen in women’s sport
Sincerely ducking the hard questions
Nick Cohen reveals how this book, along with hundreds of political writers like him, ducks the reality of working class life
Letter from Washington: Afghan blues
The Taliban’s grimly predictable advance is a reminder that withdrawal is not the end of Biden’s Afghanistan headache
Rules of enragement
At its best Conflicted reminds us of the central importance of meaningful debate