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
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Keir’s logorrhoea
The prime minister has a lot to say — but does any of it actually matter?
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war