Gardens
Paradise regained
The start of each growing season is a return to a past season’s “lost” garden
Inhale some joy
Planting for scent is a recipe for curing winter blues
Château South Downs
A hint of Roman history is nestled in the Surrey Hills
Go on, go to seed
Let the plants do the work says Hephzibah Anderson
A rose for a tight spot
Hephzibah Anderson scents success in a pot
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
Single-minded
Enjoy some new malt whiskies coming to market
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Davie, Davie, give us some answers do
Why the BBC keeps obscuring the truth of sex and gender
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
