Garden Museum
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
Don’t kowtow to cry-bullies
Why Kezia Dugdale can’t apologise enough
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Spielberg’s ho-hum space chase
Those describing it as a masterpiece cannot have seen Saving Private Ryan or Schindler’s List
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers