Root and Branch
The potting shelf
You can grow without a garden
The rule of sixty
Save your shrubs with a slug pub, says Hephzibah Anderson
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
Go on, go to seed
Let the plants do the work says Hephzibah Anderson
A thorny problem
Hephzibah Anderson battles bristly oxtongue
Iron secretary
He didn’t quite dress up as Maggie, but he did everything but
G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic
The prince of paradox predicted the absurdities of Covid lockdowns
British piano concertos (Lyrita); British music for strings #3 (CPO)
A prawn cocktail of exceptionally competent music to enjoy on Easter Sunday
Broad horizons
Libraries are now much less about places to house books as places for people to work
The Thirty Years War
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Thirty Years War in the German lands
A Room with a Feud
What happened to robust — and, yes, rude — literary criticism?
Tribes of Westminster
Steve Baker MP, Christian Libertarian
A very British crank
Bertrand Russell is almost too familiar a figure to be worth remembering
And never the twain shall meet?
A lineup of new books tackle the thorny China problem
Earthly pleasures
The thrill of digging up — and eating — the first new potatoes of the year
The monster that lurks within us
The enduring popularity of fantasy and horror fiction proves that we still live in the long, dark shadow of the Gothic novel