Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
The savage triumph
End Game 1944: How Stalin Won the War. By Jonathan Dimbleby
Riches of the east
Mikanowski’s timely book pours iridescent light on the lands and peoples of Eastern Europe
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
