Dried Flowers
Everlasting beauty
Dried flowers are back in vogue, says Hephzibah Anderson
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”