Owen Matthews
Owen Matthews is an historian and journalist who has written extensively about Russia.
Georgia on my mind
There is an exodus of Muscovites with money to Tbilisi and Turkey
The fanatical commissar of killing
An engaging and thoroughly readable new biography on Boris Savinkov
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys