Flowers
Everlasting beauty
Dried flowers are back in vogue, says Hephzibah Anderson
Acts of faith
Hephzibah Anderson plants her spring bulbs
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
