Gardening
The Critic Books Podcast: The Gardener
On this episode of The Critic Books podcast, Francesca Peacock speaks to Salley Vickers about The Gardener
Digging a new scene
Thomas Woodham-Smith discovers the joys of gardenalia
Everlasting beauty
Dried flowers are back in vogue, says Hephzibah Anderson
A word to the wise
The plants are listening, says Hephzibah Anderson
Please sit down
Take a moment to enjoy your plot, says Hephzibah Anderson
Pick of the bunch
Garden flowers are for posies
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
The blame, again, falls on Sinn Fein
The party responded appallingly to its press officer being accused of child sex offences
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Is cricket growing up and leaving home?
In many ways the sport is thriving, but there is danger ahead
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
