Stalin
Russian roulette
Musicians lived in constant terror of putting a foot, or a note, wrong
Stalin’s last laugh
Joseph Stalin has been recast in Russia not as a bloodsoaked tyrant, but as a strong, effective leader
Young Stalin’s unlikely London holiday
Stephen May’s new novel is a triumph of historical fiction
H.G. Wells must fall
When it comes to cancel culture, socialism is the ultimate prophylactic, writes Michael Coren
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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
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness