Ukraine-Russia conflict
Music of the here and now
Valentin Silvestrov: Silent Songs (DG)
Putin’s pals
The world has not united against Russia
How were we so wrong?
The Iraq invasion was never more than folly
Putin, Shute and nukes
How much should we fear nuclear war?
Development hell
The war in Ukraine has ground to a stalemate
Sympathy for the devil
Understanding Putin is the key to countering his wicked agenda
Ukraine: one year on
We must be as resolute as the Ukrainians
Tanks for the memories
The British Army’s main battle tank is back in action
Difficult questions on Ukraine
We must not shrink from reassessment
Return of the mercenaries
Putin’s hired killers have money on their minds
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
