Russia’s policy of Westernophobia
Weekly pressers from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs have turned into festivals of hostility towards the countries caught in the Kremlin’s crosshairs — why?
20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
Another Boris and me
Boris Yeltsin’s path to the end of the Soviet Union, and the dawn of a new Russia that led, unerringly, to the despotic power we see today
Renée Fleming: Voice of Nature, The Anthropocene (Decca)
Beauty released by the singer’s larynx is met by plodding fingers on a monochrome keyboard
The joys and misery of Monica
This is not only an objective biography by a distinguished academic, it is also a warm personal memoir
Hung out to dry
The University College Union’s treatment of Kathleen Stock is shameful
Tom Tugendhat’s empty rhetoric
What is the government supposed to do with Tom’s “rage”?
Kill them with kindness
Extreme gender ideology encourages women to shut up and be nice
Lover, muse, artist
The aim of this new biography is to re-establish this undeservedly overlooked artist
Citizens of somewhere
Michael Henderson delves into two different radio programmes with identity at the centre
Bleak streets
Freedom to die on the streets is no freedom at all