Belarus
Poland’s border crisis belongs to the rest of Europe too
A soldier’s tragic death has exacerbated tensions on the border with Belarus
Dinner in the Bloodlands
Belarus Free Theatre brings moral complexity to the table
Art as resistance
This Belarusian play at the Barbican is timely and urgent
Is Belarus entitled to sovereignty?
In the air or on the ground
Excl: Belarus opposition leader says “all action” UK is “example to the world”
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya: The UK’s strong support against Lukashenko is better than EU which “cannot bring itself to agree”
Can we help Belarus?
We may not know how best to help Belarus, but it would likely not hurt to look as if we might make an effort
Hope and fear for Belarus
The protests in Belarus, like in Venezuela, may end up as a missed opportunity
Report from Belarus
There is no one left to fight for Europe’s last dictator and his Soviet utopia
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
