Planting
Paradise regained
The start of each growing season is a return to a past season’s “lost” garden
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
