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Michael Heseltine may be 89 this month but his garden shows him planting for the future – much as he is still doing through his politics.

There is joy and relief that the British citizens are finally on their way back from years of detention in Iran. But after Britain reportedly finally paid the debt it has owed Iran for decades, what was it all for?

The paper's grandee Paul Dacre is notorious for his so-called “vagina monologues” directed at individuals who displease him

Comedian MITCH BENN ponders why he seems to be the only commentator who hasn't been bought off by the Kremlin

The National's staging of Small Island shows a theatre that has now totally lost its way

The observation that military force has become less important in how nations wield power was more credible pre-invasion

Max Webster's production revels in warfare when his audiences are sick to death of it

Former Today editor Sarah Sands still wants to go into business with the Tory party's co-chair

The Daily Telegraph ignores a book which challenges everything it has peddled about Brexit

The Daily Telegraph has quietly removed all trace of its Russian propaganda supplement from its website

After getting the green light to merge the Times and Sunday Times, Murdoch has virtually sacked all of their directors, including his daughter

Boris Johnson declared the UK is leading the way in its willingness to help refugees. Imagining then what Downing Street views as unwilling is incomprehensible

It is time to question our biases and demand our governments are consistent in how they deal with everyone seeking a safe haven

The Russian oligarch should have got out years ago - now the club I love is in limbo

With war under way, it is impossible to visit a new exhibition of Francis Bacon's work and not think about humans’ terrible vulnerability in the face of shot and shell

As the West enters a period where any weakness will be weaponised, Britain needs innovation now more than ever

An intensive care consultant retraces the NHS’s painful journey through Covid – and explains why he is more worried than the Johnson government about what may lie ahead

An angry annual conference of the farmers’ union has revealed the depth to which a sector that voted for Brexit and the Tories feels sold out

To join Gavin Williamson, who else is deserving of a knighthood? Here are some more ennoblements we should expect to see coming down the red carpet soon...

A disjointed Conservative party would create future opportunity to rejoin the EU, says one reader

Lifting restrictions early may have given Boris Johnson a break from Partygate, but the decision clouds come back to haunt him

Stung by their 2019 election campaign but keen to shore up their pro-EU convictions, the party will this weekend vote on a detailed roadmap back

Absolute power makes you think you can do what you like, where you like, how you like. It is a power no truly democratic leader will ever enjoy

Chelsea’s future is uncertain and manager Thomas Tuchel finds himself asked questions about war and morality instead of tactics and injuries

Johnson won't get his Churchillian moment from this crisis, nor will he get the chance to return to his mister good times act afterwards

Boris Johnson’s claims of generous support to Ukrainian refugees are easily refuted by the figures: 50 visas granted vs nearly 1 million people taken in by Poland

Cal Flyn's win as The Sunday Times Young Writer of the year may have been helped by the fact that Flyn worked for the paper for five years and that her two books are published by HarperCollins - also owned by Rupert Murdoch

Losing the Mail Online's Martin Clarke is a matter of profound regret for his lordship

One thinks he's a player, while the other neglects to mention him in their Ukraine coverage

The war in Ukraine has pushed #Partygate off the front pages but Boris Johnson’s attempts to reinvent himself as a trustworthy statesman are still overshadowed by past misdemeanours, with the police yet to report on whether he broke lockdown rules

Nicholas Kenton's appointment as the Daily Telegraph's opera critic surprised MANDRAKE. Mostly as Kenton used to serve on the board of the English National Opera