Gardening
Jotting and plotting
Real gardeners need to keep a journal
A thoughtful old-fashioned rambler
George Orwell’s gardening prowess comes as a surprise
Double dutch
Latin nomenclature can be useful
The heat is on
We need to rethink our use of water
The allotment plot
How to guard your precious crops against thieves
Earthly pleasures
The thrill of digging up — and eating — the first new potatoes of the year
Weeds in the garden
A brilliant new work walks the thorny path of motherhood
Best muckers
The tensions of sharing a plot
Labour of love
Spring is an essential time in wine production
Personal growth
Green fingers are not always innate, they can be acquired
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
