Root and Branch
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
Are the Bee Gees Britain’s most underrated band?
The Bee Gees have always been a target for mockery, but by force of talent and ambition, they managed to define the age around them
The return of Alexei Navalny
As much as Navalny believes in his work, he believes more strongly in the need to be a participant in Russia’s political drama
You’ll never guess how this ends
You’re in the getting-Brexit-done business
Surviving the straits of hell
An old press cutting provided the key to a defiant tale of life after Auschwitz
Bored to tiers
Alice Cockerell proposes a drinking game to help deal with those who can’t stop talking about Covid-19
Should the Virgin Mary have had an abortion?
Given modern society’s strident pro-abortion stance and irreligious view of Christmas, it’s a wonder this question hasn’t already been raised
Cheer leaders
Opera unswervingly believes in the potential for a divine spark in humans, says Robert Thicknesse
The unsurprising rise of AI art
Whether we like it or not, the intrusion of AI into the domain of human creativity is going very quickly to become a fixture of our lives
Mystery of the clicking keyboard
Out of the Ether is an excellent primer on Ethereum, but the general reader might find the minutiae a bit much
The danger of rewriting history
There is a concerted attempt to reconstruct what children are taught about their history