Russia
He’s not the Messiah!
Robert Thicknesse ruminates on The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko
Uncovering the GRU
The GRU, Unit 29155 of Russia’s military intelligence service, is a remarkable failure of counterintelligence and politics from the West, says James Snell
Russia’s policy of Westernophobia
Weekly pressers from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs have turned into festivals of hostility towards the countries caught in the Kremlin’s crosshairs — why?
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
Dear and hateful
Christopher Silvester shows how Konchalovsky has one of the strangest careers in world cinema
An unrepentant serial killer
The Happy Traitor tells Blake’s story in a witty and sophisticated way, fully alert to its complexities and ironies
Does Britain need more nukes?
The Integrated Review: goodbye Middle East; hello South China Sea; but still Russia first
Long nights and northern lights: a journey to Arctic Russia
The polar cities of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk somehow attract a hardcore of visitors for whom winter isn’t a dirty word
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
None should sleep
A TOSCCA conversation on potential catastrophe in the Caucasus
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)
For we are one and unfree
Australia doesn’t care about free speech, and it doesn’t want to
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
