Soviet Union
Winner take all
Putin learned post-Cold War warfare from the West
On Solzhenitsyn’s shoulders
The great writer’s intellectual heirs warn that collective rights obscure individual suffering
Tristram and the tyrants
Laurence Sterne’s 250-year-old masterpiece is a radical, riotous celebration of liberty loathed by both Nazis and communists
Another Boris and me
Boris Yeltsin’s path to the end of the Soviet Union, and the dawn of a new Russia that led, unerringly, to the despotic power we see today
Castigating Britain
Could an editor not rescue Jonathan Haslam’s new book from triteness?
Stavropol, South Russia: In Search of Gorbachev’s Roots
The origins of a soviet leader revered as a visionary reformer in the west, but reviled as a weak American puppet in his native land
Dear and hateful
Christopher Silvester shows how Konchalovsky has one of the strangest careers in world cinema
The wrong war?
Jeremy Black says McMeekin’s account provides tough reading for anybody endorsing the Guardian’s view of history
The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies
Soviet cinema reveals to the West that life in the USSR was not all grey, unsmiling misery; instead, the Soviets were just like us
The Russians aren’t coming
New music was not officially muted in the Soviet Union. It just got left at home, says Norman Lebrecht
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography