Within this week’s issue we present a number of articles and different points of view surrounding the invasion of Ukraine,…

Chinese infiltration of the West is rampant

The enemies of the West revel in her decline

Ukraine: first victim of the war on fossil fuels

The sanctity of contract

The policies of Team Biden have proved disastrous. Who’d’ve guessed?

Ukraine crisis forces the West to grow up. Can Australia?

Covid has exposed the West’s flawed experts and mandarins

Biden is empowering a nuclear axis of evil

Dark days lie ahead

Spending millions whilst airbrushing the past

How to make money as a token westerner in Japan

Are children’s history books racist?

The premature death of the home phone

What the Ukraine war means for China — and Taiwan

Why are so many classic British brands going downmarket?

My relief – and guilt – at getting out of Ukraine

Germany’s attitude to Russia is changing fast

Despite western hopes, the Russian President won’t be easy to topple

No wild animal is closer to the hearts of the British than the hedgehog. In poll after poll, it has…

Is Putin a tyrant? Aristotle (384-322 bc) might well have thought so. Seeing the turannos as a deviant type of…

The wild one Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that Vladimir Putin had gone ‘full tonto’. The word tonto is used…

  Lviv, Ukraine On the Ukrainian side of the Polish border, near a place called Shehyni where the refugee crisis…

During the Cold War, any citizen of a Soviet bloc country who made it to Britain and claimed asylum was…

Soft options Sir: In relation to strengthening the impact of the Russian sanctions package (‘Tsar Vladimir’, 26 February), please may…

Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia: ‘Never in all my study or…

We are about to see brutality in Europe on a scalethat will be almost beyond our comprehension. Russia is turning…

Much attention has been paid to how Vladimir Putin has learnt from western weakness over his earlier invasions, including into…

It was with some relief that I heard that Labour’s Diane Abbott was opposed to the Russian invasion of Croatia,…

A fracture on the international right may seem small fry given everything that is going on right now. But it…

I’m not one of life’s early risers but an exception had to be made on Wednesday last week. In an…

In the spring of 2020, I advanced an abnormally hopeful proposition: that one blessing that might arise from a pandemic…

BP will offload the 20 per cent stake in Rosneft, the Kremlin-controlled energy giant, that is the residue of 25…

By any yardstick, the Norman Conquest was a ghastly business. Within two decades, the English aristocracy had been more than…

‘CERTIFICATE IS NOT EVIDENCE OF IDENTITY,’ the freshly issued death certificate read. In the craziness and shock of grief for…

Charles Causley was a poet’s poet. Both Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin considered him the finest candidate for the laureateship,…

Andrew Miller specialises in characters who are lost, often struggling to deal with the burden of failure. They don’t come…

If you were a teenager before 2005, one reminder of tuberculosis in British life is that small circular scar on…

The greatest ever social media spat took place before the first tweet was sent, and was conducted via fax, which…

For 20 years of my adult life, I moonlighted as a private tutor. After a full day in the office…

Mary Seacole may not have qualified as a nurse in the modern sense, but British troops benefited greatly from her healing skills, says Andrew Lycett

So Opera Australia is in quest of a new artistic director to replace Lyndon Terracini. It’s a good moment to…

The Collaboration is set in the 1980s when Andy Warhol teamed up with the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to create bad…

Grade: B Yay, life just gets better and better. World War Three and now this. More petulant popcorn pre-school punk…

The room is immersed in semi-darkness. Light filters down from above, glistening on polished marble as if it were flesh.…

The most disappointing pop performance I’ve ever seen – and in the course of my 15-odd years as a music…

The latest Batman film, The Batman, may be a reboot, or even a reboot of a rebooted reboot that’s been…

This year is the centenary of the birth of Iannis Xenakis, the Greek composer-architect who called himself an ancient Greek…

When I was ten years old I had a babysitter who was a beautiful graduate student at an Ivy League…

Stuart Jeffries on Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning art scene

I’m thinking about acquiring a drug habit. As a New South Wales Seniors Card carrier I may have left it…

We are used to words being banned – but now it seems the word police are coming for the word…

‘We’re at war!’ said the taxi man as I installed myself for the long drive to Marseille. I put a…

The Champions League final has been moved from St Petersburg to Paris and the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi cancelled.…

Trees glorious trees. People can’t get enough of them. They don’t want to take care of trees, they just want…

‘This will interest you,’ said my husband, looking up from the smeared screen of his telephone. For once he was…

In Competition No. 3238, you were invited to submit a poem about a literary feud. Wallace Stevens’s 1936 fisticuffs with…

Here’s a useful tip. Go to the Royal Mail websiteand you can ask your postman to collect letters or parcels…

Few things in life compare to the joy of playing bridge, but if I rack my brain I can think…

The inhabitants of Tuscany and Umbria can claim to be the most civilised beings on the planet, even exceeding the…

Q. Recently I started hanging out with a new friend. We are both in our twenties, single, and usually go…

Vladimir Putin’s decision on Sunday to put his ‘deterrence forces’ – code for nuclear weapons – in a high state…

The unclued lights and COMPOSERS (35A) are RIBBONS/Gibbons (1A), MAILER/Mahler (7), RAMEAN/Rameau (25), WANTON/Walton (26A), DELICES/Delibes (46), RAVENER/Tavener (1D), BELLING/Bellini…

41 (four words) suggests the other unclued lights – which are individual examples (not group names) of a kind –…

White to play and win. A gem discovered by the Ukrainian composer Vladislav Tarasiuk with Israeli composer Amatzia Avni. How…

Even when the authorities were refusing Milton Harris the right to renew his training licence after he got his finances…

St Moritz Once upon a time, not that long ago, St Moritz was the world’s greatest resort, an exclusive winter…