USSR
Young Stalin’s unlikely London holiday
Stephen May’s new novel is a triumph of historical fiction
Strange happenings back in the USSR
The brilliant story of a Francis Bacon exhibition in Moscow
The Critic Books Podcast: Bacon in Moscow
What was it like to take Francis Bacon to the USSR?
George Miller: Anti-Communist
30 years on from the Moscow Coup, Gerald Frost remembers the man bent on bringing down the Soviet Union
Were British forces a match for the Warsaw Pact?
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the role Britain’s nuclear deterrent played in facing the Warsaw Pact
The Spectre of Totalitarianism
The worst offenders in the new climate of intolerance are our universities
Marxist Magic Realism
How Soviet society, gripped by political correctness, descended into madness
The 21st century Bolshevik
Brexit showed the ruling elite is still terrified by Trotsky’s ideas of working class upheaval
When did the Cold War actually start?
Professor Jeremy Black picks-over the evidence with Graham Stewart
The brutal purging of God
Giles Udy on Godless Utopia by Roland Elliott Brown
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
Don’t take the vapes!
Will there be no end to the government’s embrace of prohibitionism?
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Hot air strikes (again)
The Prime Minister was sending a message, but it hasn’t been received
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
The reality of tobacco control
To have a law does not mean that it will be respected
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
