James Wong on gardensGardening adviceThree deadly carnivores to terrify insects and delight kids If you are a regular reader, you might just have noticed that I have a slight fondness for exotic plants. Hell, let’s be honest, it’s more of an obsession. Yet I like to think that part of my love of them is not just due to personal bias, but because there is simply no other group of plants that quite captures the imagination of such a diverse group of audiences, which might not otherwise be into horticulture.

Comedy filmsReviewLiv Hill is astonishingly good as a teenage carer whose talent for comedy transforms her troubled life Tracey Emin, who once told the story of fleeing the stage during a disco-dancing competition as teenager in Margate after men shouted “slag” at her, has got to be an inspiration for this impressive zero-budget social-realist drama set in Margate that features a similar act of cruelty against its teenage heroine. The film begins in kitchen-sink-grim mode, then multiplies in interest as it transforms into the origins story of a female talent – here in standup comedy rather than art.

FashionMorrissey in photoshoot beef with SupremeThe former Smiths frontman is unhappy with New York skatewear label Supreme’s choice of images of him, and its association with a burger brand Morrissey, fashion photographer Terry Richardson, and skatewear brand Supreme: what should have been a perfect storm of cool has backfired after the former Smiths frontman reacted badly to photographs of himself modelling for the label. Taking to his fanzine, True to You, over the weekend, he released the following statement: “I apologize [sic] enormously for the enfeebled photograph of me issued this week by Supreme.

Carol Rumens's poem of the weekPoetrySong by Elizabeth I’s court musician is a lullaby in praise of sleep – but might it also be an elegy written ahead of time? Weep you no more, sad fountains Weep you no more, sad fountains; What need you flow so fast? Look how the snowy mountains Heaven’s sun doth gently waste. But my sun’s heavenly eyes View not your weeping, That now lie sleeping

History booksReviewThe western-dominated global order is being challenged by history’s losers, in India as in Brexit Britain and Trump’s AmericaNot long after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the neoconservative American political scientist Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last Man, which declared that liberal democracy was triumphing all over the world and would become the final form of human government, bringing history to an end.