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
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Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
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The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Britain in 1776
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What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
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Farage: I’m not worried
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do