Plants
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
Is nature non-binary?
Enby birds and promiscuous plants are all part of a long history of dragging humans down to the level of beasts
Best muckers
The tensions of sharing a plot
Inhale some joy
Planting for scent is a recipe for curing winter blues
A word to the wise
The plants are listening, says Hephzibah Anderson
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age