Gardening
The potting shelf
You can grow without a garden
The rule of sixty
Save your shrubs with a slug pub, says Hephzibah Anderson
Training nature
Hephzibah Anderson reveals how RHS Bridgewater illustrates some of the tensions inherent in our newfound appreciation of what remains a highly curated kind of nature
Rites of spring
The roar of the mower is a sign of life, says Hephzibah Anderson
Nature’s design
Gardens start with a pencil and paper says Hephzibah Anderson
Black gold
Compost is the heart of a garden, says Hephzibah Anderson
Gardening is racist
Uprooting hate in the garden, fighting balance at the BBC and cancelling a racist ambassador
Trunk routes
Take your time, but do plant a tree, says Hephzibah Anderson
Acts of faith
Hephzibah Anderson plants her spring bulbs
The great indoors
Don’t scoff at the fad for houseplants says Hephzibah Anderson
The magic of Dawn Chorus
On International Dawn Chorus Day, there really is no sound lovelier than the competing noise of birdsong
The death of Soho
After a recent incident in London’s Carnaby Street, Brice Stratford laments the “dire state” of corporate Soho
Jane Austen’s social and political world
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about Jane Austen and the social and political world she inhabited
Notes on a doomed affair
Norman Lebrecht on how Marion von Weber was both interesting and important to Mahler’s emergence
Letter from Washington: Why critical race theory matters
A bad idea is a serious problem
Why are great writers such awful people?
In the wake of renewed controversy over Philip Roth’s treatment of women, Nigel Jones asks whether there is a link between creative genius and sexual unorthodoxy
We’re all in the pink
Christopher Pincher celebrates the return of warm summer nights with a taste of Provence — and the finest rosé in the world
Minority of one
Baddiel is concerned in this short, polemical book with Jews being “left out”
Dear and hateful
Christopher Silvester shows how Konchalovsky has one of the strangest careers in world cinema
Perils of a cause célèbre
A patronising and draconian response to female genital mutilation risks victimising women who have already been abused