RHS
Paradise regained
The start of each growing season is a return to a past season’s “lost” garden
Training nature
Hephzibah Anderson reveals how RHS Bridgewater illustrates some of the tensions inherent in our newfound appreciation of what remains a highly curated kind of nature
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Masterful pianism
Bartok, Janacek, Szymanowski (Warner)
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?