Cold War
The new Cold War
An official end to the Cold War was declared at a summit between President George H. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev…
What to do about Putin
Sanctions won’t help. One thing might
Diary
I have written a play, but a month after it was sent to half a dozen theatres, I have heard…
Goodbye to all that
In the latest – and best – of the books on the end of the USSR, Victor Sebestyen finds that the only good thing about the Soviet empire was the manner of its passing
Patriot games
Possibly because his oratory is no match for his much-displayed pectoral muscles, the speeches of Vladimir Putin are seldom reported…
The 100-year plot
To understand the real meaning of the EU, you must grasp that it originated in the first world war, rather than the second
