Vladimir Putin
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
How has the Kremlin affected our energy policies?
The Rycroft Review cannot ignore Russian influence over UK energy policy
The year the mob called the tune
So much political meddling in music and so little resistance
Peace, solar power and ponies for all
Zack Polanski has a head full of empty promises
Nigel: Who didn’t admire Putin?
Rob has another rifle through Peston’s Inbox
Russia is hurting badly
Friends of Ukraine must call Vladimir Putin’s bluff
Trump’s poodle
Nigel Farage is talking about Ukraine but talking to Washington
Time to get real on Ukraine
What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole of Ukraine, and yet loses the balance of power?
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
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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
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate