Frederick Edward
Frederick Edward is a writer from the Midlands who currently lives in Saint Petersburg. He tweets at @FredEdwardUK
“No happiness in life”: a very Russian outlook
How endless optimism can make it difficult when confronted with unpleasant choices
Clap for the modern gods
Once people prayed for rain or for sun. Now, we pray for our NHS
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
45 seconds to midnight
Say what you will of nuclear war but at least, unlike this election, it’s mercifully brief
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
Blame Boris for Britain’s borders
Boris Johnson is no lost Conservative hero — he did tremendous harm
Deconstructing the pro-EU fantasies of the FT
22.5 per cent agrifood export growth? They must be joking
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all