Amnesty International is wrong to brand Alexei Navalny an anti-hero
The response to the political plight of Navalny has demonstrated that many civil rights organisations are neither principled nor brave
Unravelling the myth of George Soros
Emily Tamkin’s ‘The Influence of Soros’ is a lucid, subtle and fair-minded attempt to grapple with a tremendously complex legacy
Stephen Cohen: historian, polemicist and friend of Gorbachev
Cohen was a prophet of America’s decline
The world leaders who battled coronavirus and won
How is it that our most eccentric world leaders have been the ones disproportionately affected by Covid-19?
American puritanism lives on
Judge not a sext lest your sexts be judged
Report from Belarus
There is no one left to fight for Europe’s last dictator and his Soviet utopia
We need more Lord Lebedevs
Evgeny Lebedev’s peerage should be celebrated – other members of the Lords have much closer links to the Kremlin.
A damning report
For Americans, the UK’s Russia report is the proverbial canary in the coal mine
Communal unrest breaks out in France
Vladislav Davidson explains the most bizarre communal violence in recent memory
Macron needs another reboot
The French people are not happy. Can their President do anything to change that?
The tides of taste
Quality is as desirable as ever
Dawning continent
The West has underestimated Africa’s independent economic potential
Very essence of a Jewish writer’s life
Howard Jacobson stands his life on its head
Where do you draw the line?
The West should think twice before providing endless weaponry to Ukraine
Welcome returns for three Irish writers
Why is the publishing industry so obsessed with debuts?
What’s behind that enigmatic smile?
The author of a new novel about the Mona Lisa explores the history of the world’s most famous painting
Stop insisting the West is as bad as Russia
Critics of the democratic world are unwittingly spouting Kremlin propaganda
Trojan charities
Institutional drift leftwards does not have to be inevitable
Wogan: heavyweight with a light touch
The absence of Terry Wogan leaves a hole in radio presenting
Feminism has always been gender critical
Historical feminists knew better than anyone that biological sex is real
Our throwaway society
A trip to the waste disposal site provides an insight into human nature