Root and Branch
Best muckers
The tensions of sharing a plot
As easy as pie plant
How to pamper your rhubarb patch
Paradise regained
The start of each growing season is a return to a past season’s “lost” garden
Inhale some joy
Planting for scent is a recipe for curing winter blues
Personal growth
Green fingers are not always innate, they can be acquired
Everlasting beauty
Dried flowers are back in vogue, says Hephzibah Anderson
A word to the wise
The plants are listening, says Hephzibah Anderson
Please sit down
Take a moment to enjoy your plot, says Hephzibah Anderson
Pick of the bunch
Garden flowers are for posies
The potting shelf
You can grow without a garden
Children aren’t pets
When did it become okay to degrade children?
The war so far
Campaign Diary: the course of the conflict to date
Putin’s megalomania is encountering reality
Campaign diary: Russian propaganda has gone from scalpel to sledgehammer
Why I fear this censors’ charter
Nadine Dorries’s chilling Online Safety Bill invites professional activists to wipe anything they deem wrongthink from the internet
A tawdry death imitating art
Francis Bacon’s turbulent love for George Dyer is visible on the canvas
Do we really need so many stage adaptations of novels?
There’s much that can go wrong when the drama of a book is transferred to the stage
Can Putin’s conductor redeem himself?
Gergiev’s road to redemption
Ken’s troubles
The modern theatrical world isn’t kind to its older actors
The Critic Books Podcast: The BBC — A People’s History
One hundred years on from the founding of the BBC, David Hendy speaks about how history has shaped the corporation
Beyond the floppy fringe
It’s no laughing matter that our grotesque, contemptible political class is so out of touch
The Colston 4 and the fog of law
The politicised trial of the Bristol statue topplers shows the law surrounding protests is mired in confusion