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”
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
For realism, against Scottish nationalism
Progress depends on rejecting the delusions of independence
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
Revive the roots
To save the Conservative Party, its chairman must return powers to the local associations
Why we should give votes to kids
It would stop their interests from being neglected