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West is best
So why be ashamed of ourselves?
Shanghai’s shame
China’s lockdown protestors cannot be silenced
Hitchhiking
When I first saw Vitaly I thought he was drunk. I was standing outside a petrol station near Fulda, in…
The narcissist vs the fantasist
France faces a gruesome choice
Workshy Whitehall
Too few civil servants are returning to the office
Energy savings
How I finally learned to love my eco-home
Conflict of opinion
Why Russian support for the war will keep growing
Hotel Rwanda
Why is Paul Kagame agreeing to accommodate Britain’s asylum seekers?
Boris fights on
Will he survive?
Art attack
Will AI change painting — or destroy it?
Risen again
The war has helped to resurrect Poland’s Catholic church
Violets
The English Rock Garden, the magnum opus of the great gardening writer, horticulturist and plant collector Reginald Farrer, is an…
A Ukrainian’s notebook
Palm Sunday in Perugia. Umbrians were scuttling around with twigs and leaves, but I was in town to celebrate another…
Russia’s special relationship
Why so many African leaders support Putin
Easter lamb
Greek-style marinated lamb, Greek salad and tzatziki
‘Putin still has a lot left to lose’
Niall Ferguson and David Petraeus on Russia’s mistakes, Xi’s plans and the lessons of Iraq
Toxic Patriarch
How Putin weaponised the Russian Orthodox church
Cross to bear
Can Russia ever atone for Putin’s sins?
Hell’s kitchens
When did they get so expensive?
War crimes
The politics of prosecution
The law of war
Conflict has always had its limits
Ever decreasing circles
The decline of male friendship
The Wolseley
I was sitting alone at a small table in the Wolseley, Piccadilly, waiting for my supper and feeling a sense…
Europe’s last dictator
The fate of Lukashenko depends on Ukraine
The faultline
It’s the progressives vs the populists, Macron vs Orban
