USSR
Russian roulette
Musicians lived in constant terror of putting a foot, or a note, wrong
Stalin’s umbilical cord
Did the Arctic convoys actually do any good?
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
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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 costs of telling the truth too late
The girl guiding decision is causing pain — so why do activists seek to prolong it?
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves