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 deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
The royals needs better PR
We have seen too many royal disasters
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
The secrets of familial suffering
Recovering from the burden of generational pain can be a private act
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
Killing with kindness
“Be kind” culture has abandoned adolescent girls
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
