Features

The balance of resolve favours Russia

Most modern feminists blithely ignore the exploitation of less-privileged women

South Africa still, in many ways, operates as an apartheid state

Rainer Zitelmann is a rare intellectual

The BBC is still mired in liberal groupthink

In search of Crusaders in chainmail and a city of the dead in the Caucasus Mountains

Middle class millennials in search of the good life

Robin Ashenden whiled away a forced sojourn in Georgia by feasting on the back catalogue of Desert Island Discs and compiling a list of his favourite guests

A leader of great personal qualities

We can disagree with Annie Ernaux’s politics while saying she deserves her Nobel Prize