Russia
Puncturing Putin’s dangerous myths
Everyone reveres WWII myths — but the cult of the Great Patriotic War defines modern Russia
Regathering the Russian lands: the rationale for Putin’s war in Ukraine
The president’s inflammatory rhetoric is informed by two centuries of Russian nationalist thought centring on a distrust of Europe and a mission to recover all the lands of “Ancient Rus”
The curious cult of the friend of fascism
Ayn Rand’s vile philosophy was one of the crudest ever to be taken seriously, but attracts the devotion of fundamentalists for whom she could do no wrong
Making the moral case for war
Ukrainians face slaughter and subjugation. Church leaders must back them unequivocally
Mobilisation
Christ, humanity and war
The SPD
Many of Germany’s present woes were anticipated by Schröder’s time in office
What can Russia’s failure in Afghanistan teach us about its war in Ukraine?
The echoes should be ominous for the Kremlin
The demolition man
His legacy impresses and frustrates
Prokofiev, Tcherepnin: The Bark of Yearning (Avi-music)
This is prime Prokofiev
What the Russians may be eating in Tbilisi
Georgian cuisine is a rose with few thorns
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
The scandal of screens
Parents are ill-equipped to fight the power of Big Tech over children’s lives — they desperately need the law to be on their side
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
Turning a blind eye to a tilted playing field
Not only is it a page-turner, it’s also an essential manual for defending women’s sport
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
The menopause is no joke
It is time to stop being so facetious about women’s health
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
