Gardening
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Timeless wisdom
Literary gifts for every gardener or garden-lover on your Christmas list
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
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
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem