James Kirchick
James Kirchick is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age. He is at work on a history of gay Washington, DC. @jkirchick
The gay anti-Nazi brotherhood
In recognising the threat Hitler posed and swimming against the tide of public opinion, the glamour boys defied the stereotypes
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere