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Paradise regained
The start of each growing season is a return to a past season’s “lost” garden
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country