Soviet Union
Stephen Cohen: historian, polemicist and friend of Gorbachev
Cohen was a prophet of America’s decline
Rich and red: The USSR’s prize assets
The wealthy young Americans who laboured for decades to help the communist cause
A spy all along
Morton Sobell went on trial for espionage with the Rosenbergs. His devotion to communism fascinated me
Melancholy of obsolete futures
Alexander Adams on Soviet Brutalism and where to read about it
Writer who caught the reality of war
Vasily Grossman was not only a great correspondent in World War Two but a courageous dissident
When did the Cold War actually start?
Professor Jeremy Black picks-over the evidence with Graham Stewart
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
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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
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Iran has been fatally misunderstood
The US and Israel were foolish to imagine that the Iranians would crumble
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.