Flowers
A statement flower
The most fanatical have spent fortunes to find the rarest and finest of these blooms
Everlasting beauty
Dried flowers are back in vogue, says Hephzibah Anderson
Acts of faith
Hephzibah Anderson plants her spring bulbs
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
