Alexei Navalny
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
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
The return of Alexei Navalny
As much as Navalny believes in his work, he believes more strongly in the need to be a participant in Russia’s political drama
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable