It's time to dig, mulch and prune with Australia's award-winning landscape designer Paul Bangay. He's here to take you through the basics and give you the skills to become a confident gardener. In the next edition of Garden Rudimental, Paul reveals his adoration for Vita Sackville West. 

While she's best known for her writing, her Bloomsbury Group membership, and her enduring partnership with Virginia Woolf, Sackville-West was also a passionate green thumb.

Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental: Vita Sackville-West

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It was called Russia-gate and it’s now been found to have been a complete fabrication. It was based on the widespread claim that Donald Trump was a Kremlin agent, and his victory in the presidential election in 2016 was due to his campaign’s collusion with Russia.

The fabrication that was “Russia-gate”

If the west’s wealth is based on slavery, should reparations be paid? Or does Africa instead need moral accountability from its own leaders and honesty among its intellectuals about what the trans-Atlantic trade entailed.

The debate on reparations for the African slave trade

A new book tells the stories of people who took part in the Cultural Revolution and what is has cost them. It also examines its importance and its connection to China today.

What can today’s China learn from the Cultural Revolution?

Kim Yo Jong is the sister of North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un. She’s known as the most powerful woman in the hermit kingdom. Could she also be her brother’s successor?

The most powerful woman in North Korea

We look at why pro-interventionist views dominate the front pages and media airwaves.

Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental: Vita Sackville-West

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