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
Lawless and disordered
British police and courts increasingly struggle to maintain public order
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Britain is not for sale
On the commodification of the nation state
The dark future of free media in Europe
A French news channel has been fined for airing unchallenged negative views about migration and climate change
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Britain must get real on foreign policy
Dim clichés and childish chest-beating are not going to help us
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
Heaven scent
Harrods is no help in the quest for Raffouche
Whistler in black and white
A video artwork that aims to critique Rex Whistler’s controversial mural in Tate Britain lacks context and nuance
Devilishly good
Liszt: Faust Symphony (Bis)
Telling tales out of school
Is it really about sex, race, generational hierarchies — or the changeable nature of student-teacher relationships?
