Vladimir Putin
German foreign policy
Berlin’s Russian blunders
The demolition man
His legacy impresses and frustrates
How to end the war in Ukraine
Neither territorial concessions nor unrealistic dreams of toppling Putin can secure lasting peace
Buildings for butchers
How should we judge the grandoise building projects of murderous dictators?
Putin and the Pope
Can the Argentinian pontiff make a difference in Ukraine?
Can Putin’s conductor redeem himself?
Gergiev’s road to redemption
The moral blindness of Putin’s generals
Russia’s murderous tactics to “de-Nazify” Ukraine have made its military leaders doppelgängers for the senior officers who executed Hitler’s evil plans
Right requires Might
Rules mean nothing without the means to enforce them
Is Putin’s war turning genocidal?
Campaign Diary: Evidence of Russian war crimes found in Bucha
Music’s moral conscience
The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
British politics is Gething worse and worse
Identity is being prioritised over competence and ambition
Boiling the British frog
Decline is a process, not a moment
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
Corporations can become communities
Canary Wharf’s 8 Canada Square should be humanised
A great Games
Will new heroes arise in Paris, 100 years on?
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Doing shots
You can tell a lot about someone from their favourite Henry wife
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Israel off the leash
For Benjamin Netanyahu, continuing the war is a matter of political survival, and he goes to America to raise support, not to listen to calls for peace
