Potted Plants
A word to the wise
The plants are listening, says Hephzibah Anderson
A rose for a tight spot
Hephzibah Anderson scents success in a pot
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
Killing the golden goose
International student numbers must be capped, and candidates held to the same academic standards
Carr’s sound, satisfying, and solid creations
A new book on an inventive, unjustly underrated, provincial architect is handsome but flawed
We have to be more precise about progress
What sort of progress do we want, and how are we going to get it?
The abdication of responsibility
A monarch quitting undercuts the point of the institution they represent
Less than an animal?
It is surely wrong that animal foetuses enjoy more protection under the law than human ones
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Resistance is futile
Acceptance can be an act of protest. Not a submissive, passive surrender.