Stephen Pollard
Stephen Pollard is The Critic’s Turf correspondent
Geopolitics and the invasion of Ukraine
What lessons does Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have for the study of geopolitics?
An underground war
This history of resistance in the Second World War is as moving as it is comprehensive
Crumbling is not an instant’s act
A new exhibition revels in the intricacies and drama of architectural drawings — and the ruins of buildings they leave behind
What lies ahead for the Australian election?
Labor’s Anthony Albanese might have a chance
An unlikely man of the people
Kenneth Clark has been unfairly accused of elitism; he wanted to democratise the glories of Western art and make it available to all
War without end: Putin’s Syria model
The war in Ukraine shows tragic parallels to the earlier conflict
Don’t mention the war
It’s wrong to cite the Ukraine conflict as the principal cause of soaring prices
It’s time to burst the red balloons
How did Europe’s wealthiest state come to finance the greatest tyrant of the 21st Century?
None so blind
Novara’s analysis of Gen Z “sex negativity” overlooks the obvious