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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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
