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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
The costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
