Derek Offord
Derek Offord is an emeritus professor and senior research fellow at the University of Bristol. He has written and/or edited 15 books on Russian history, thought, literature, and language
Regathering the Russian lands: the rationale for Putin’s war in Ukraine
The president’s inflammatory rhetoric is informed by two centuries of Russian nationalist thought centring on a distrust of Europe and a mission to recover all the lands of “Ancient Rus”
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Killing democracy to save it?
The annulling of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections should concern us all
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
The year in military history
2024 has been a rewarding year for lovers of books and history
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise