Soviet Union
The week the war ended
Seventy-five years ago this month, peace finally came to a destroyed Europe
American idealists in hell
Roland Elliott Brown reviews The Russian Job by Douglas Smith
Hot desking
We, the special advisers of the Labour Party, seek justice!
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
