Lifestyle
Only collect
The key to successful selling is to cultivate collectors
Pick of the bunch
Garden flowers are for posies
After the goldrush
Hannah Betts finds a way to live with her pet hate — denim jeans
The potting shelf
You can grow without a garden
The rule of sixty
Save your shrubs with a slug pub, says Hephzibah Anderson
Labouring unloved
In the West we’ve yet to make the acknowledgment that overwork can be deadly, says Katrina Gulliver
Let’s call it a wrap
Hannah Betts is hooked on the insouciance of a vast scarf
Finn noir
A Bergmanesque miasma of gloom hangs over every episode in this new Scandinavian thriller
The pleasures and the pain
Christopher North speaks to the fearless Andrés Roca Rey, Peru’s first bull fighting star
Elusive quest for impartiality
I would cavil at the curse of the presenter monologue, tending to sway the audience one way or the other, reveals Anne McElvoy
Indiana Jones is back!
A fifth film is looming, but I really, really, wish it wasn’t
Land and sea: the global reach of Britain’s armed forces in the nineteenth century
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the reach and organisation of Britain’s armed forces in protecting and expanding the British empire
Confronting or managing decolonisation?
Professor Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss Britain’s military campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s
Letter from Washington: The Trumpism-without-Trump candidate
J.D. Vance thinks the MAGA movement is about more than the man
Black lives matter
Knife crime is predominantly black on black, so don’t hold the police back
Should the government launch a culture war?
Jeremy Black says that the question is not whether the Conservatives should initiate a culture war but how far and how best to conduct a defence
Letter from Washington: Do Democrats really want to learn from 2020?
A supposedly honest election post-mortem is a symptom of the party’s problems
Rogue male
Scoundrel, liar, cheat and toady, George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman is a creation of genius and a bracing antidote to our timid age
An unconvincing ally
”Unionist” Keir Starmer seems to assume the UK’s role in Ulster is that of a glorified referee
Torn in the USA
Purpose, identity and social status, how this book reveals the three things lacking on the shop floor at Amazon