Dried Flowers
Everlasting beauty
Dried flowers are back in vogue, says Hephzibah Anderson
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Moving in mysterious ways
Normally, a warning comes with some kind of threat
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
