Vladimir Putin
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
When do we lift the sanctions?
Sooner or later a diplomatic compromise will have to be reached
Putin the abuser
Terrifying parallels emerge between domestic violence and the Ukraine invasion
Women can have short hair, too
Pseudo-progressives are resurrecting gender stereotypes
The students are revolting
Far too many young people are sheltered from the real world by their university education
Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
A stern telling-off
Rachel Reeves has had enough of these misbehaving Tories
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
Are you there God? It’s me, Farage
Nigel Farage bares his soul, but not before he buries his enemies
Pushing the boundaries
The map of the world is likely to be redrawn, thanks to the decline of post war Pax Americana, an expansionist Russia and China, and the push for ethnic sovereignty
New life for a dying trade
The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?
Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
Embracing the quiet life
Keir Starmer takes a vow of public service and perpetual dogmatic silence
The great Conservative farewell
The Conservatives’ terrible result could become terminal
