Moscow
Buildings for butchers
How should we judge the grandoise building projects of murderous dictators?
Kiev and Moscow: a tale of two Russias
Ukraine threatens Putin because it offers an alternative version of Russia
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
Keir: more than just a lucky general
Neither Left nor Right can accept that Starmer’s impressive focus and strategic sense is responsible for transforming Labour’s prospects
Counting Covid costs
We need a broad perspective of Britain’s pandemic failures
Urban insecurity and conflict
The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution
The rise of academentia
Mere transgression is being elevated above genuine insight and creativity
The incarnation of vice
Sex, gypsies, smoking, smugglers, sex, bullfighting, murder, and did we mention…sex?
Gender and Josef K.
How it feels to be accused of crimes that don’t exist
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona