Dried Flowers
Everlasting beauty
Dried flowers are back in vogue, says Hephzibah Anderson
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
The cowards, the pretenders and the woman-haters
Awkwardness is no excuse for not supporting the gender-critical cause
How NatCon was saved
An attempted cancellation flopped in Brussels — but the bad taste remains
