Stalingrad
Setting Soviet history straight
Would Hitler and Stalin have fought so hard over a city named Tsaritsyn?
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Don’t let it go
Communal singing is good for the soul
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
