Vladamir Putin
Putin’s pals
The world has not united against Russia
Something in the way Xi moves
We should engage the CCP instead of being intimidated
International disorder
Tyrants are breaking with civilisation
Psychoanalysing autocrats
How the West tries to understand its enemies
The Great Vladsby
Like Gatsby, Putin’s self-destructive nostalgia will be his undoing
Putin’s big parade
Campaign Diary: Expect extra chest-thumping on “Soviet Victory Day”
The triumph of the Trump doctrine
An appraisal of the President’s foreign policy would find he was consistent, traditional, multilateral – and highly successful
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
A dentist’s appointment for Liam
Rishi discovers he is more appealing to the voters when he’s not there
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
The case for Christian converts
Don’t let allegedly bogus conversions cause you to forget that real ones exist
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
