Vladimir Putin’s grip on reality is slipping
Has Vladimir Putin gone mad? Until now, even his critics have tended to indulge fantasies of him as the ultimate master chess player. He is widely seen…
F@ck this Job, review: a timely portrait of one of Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics
The Russian TV station Dozhd, launched in 2010, was originally dubbed “the optimistic channel” – an outlook it struggled to sustain from day one, given Putin’s state…
Nobody home: £8m Belgravia home linked to sanctioned oligarchs
The Rotenbergs are confidantes of President Putin. Their relationship stems from their childhoods in St Petersburg where they trained together in the same Judo Club in the…
Punishing Russia is no easy task
Once again the effectiveness of sanctions is being questioned as a response to a blatant breach of international law. The Russian incursion into eastern Ukraine has been…
The world is sliding into a new Dark Age of poverty, irrationality and war
Imperialism, war, irrationality, disease and economic dislocation: modernity is ending as it began. Vladimir Putin’s monstrous expansionism is the latest, terrifying reminder that human progress is far…
Vladimir Putin has ‘gone full tonto’ over Ukraine, says Ben Wallace
Foreign policy commentators have questioned whether Mr Putin is behaving irrationally after he ordered troops into eastern Ukraine. Mr Wallace was filmed making his comments as he…
Vladimir Putin hasn’t changed. He’s just much better prepared
Putin’s aggression towards Ukraine is nothing new. The Kremlin’s former vassal states have heard the drumbeat of war before and recognise its chill warning. In 2007, nearly…
Why Vladimir Putin is obsessed with Ukraine
“No one is trying to rebuild the Soviet Union,” he reassured viewers. When one caller demanded reunification of the Russian-speaking peoples, he issued a polite but firm…
Tories will keep Russia-linked donations totalling £1.93 million, says Liz Truss
Liz Truss has said the Conservative Party will not hand back almost £2m of donations from Russian-linked individuals, as ministers prepare further sanctions on oligarchs and Vladimir…
Ukraine invasion threatens to push energy bills even higher
Fears over energy supplies sparked a warning from a senior Bank of England official that interest rates may need to rise more quickly. In his first speech…
Democracy is under threat from resurgent authoritarianism
‘This was an unprovoked act of aggression against an independent country and represents a serious threat to world peace and an unprecedented development in the history of…
Parliament is right to be angry: these sanctions are too little, too late
Not since its special session on the fiasco in Afghanistan last August has the House of Commons been so united as during the responses to the Prime…
Putin wouldn’t be invading if Trump were still in the White House
President Trump was derided by his political opponents as an isolationist, soft on strongmen autocrats like Vladimir Putin. The Left painted him as a populist who undermined…
The inside story of Vladimir Putin’s obsession with Ukraine and why it’s so important to Russia
“No one is trying to rebuild the Soviet Union,” he reassured viewers. When one caller demanded reunification of the Russian-speaking peoples, he issued a polite but firm…
Vladimir Putin is even more dangerous than the deluded West is able to admit
With Ukraine on the edge of invasion, a question hangs over the West. Who is the real Vladimir Putin? Is he the street fighter who grew up…
Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine gamble is beginning to backfire
Wednesday came and went with the perilous tension of a disaster film. The mooted date of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine did not see thousands of…
The West has forgotten why it matters that our enemy Putin doesn’t win
Our culture disapproves of sustained hatred. Partly because of our Christian inheritance and partly because we still see ourselves as top dogs, we in the West like…
The inside story of Vladimir Putin’s mythical obsession with Ukraine and why it’s so important to Russia
“No one is trying to rebuild the Soviet Union,” he reassured viewers. When one caller demanded reunification of the Russian-speaking peoples, he issued a polite but firm…
Why world leaders don’t trust Vladimir Putin with their DNA
The potential of high profile DNA has long been appreciated. In the US, Navy stewards are said to gather bedsheets, drinking glasses, and other objects the president…
Putin’s Ukraine gamble is beginning to backfire
Wednesday came and went with the perilous tension of a disaster film. The mooted date of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine did not see thousands of…
The West must mount a unified response to continued Russian aggression
The crisis engulfing Ukraine has not shown the West in the best of lights, but the UK can take some pride in how it has acted. The…
No, Vladimir Putin hasn’t humiliated the West
Only in the fantasy world that is Vladimir Putin’s Russia could the Kremlin seriously believe that the military stand-off over Ukraine has resulted in a humiliating defeat…
Europe must beware: Putin’s tentacles extend far beyond Ukraine
“Stop thief” is what a pickpocket shouts to distract his victim. As fingers fish a wallet out of a jacket, the criminal points wildly in the opposite…
In these moments, we see the immense value of a nuclear deterrent
Shortly after becoming prime minister, Theresa May was challenged (by the SNP, of course) on Trident and whether there were any circumstances in which she would press…
‘Putin’s behaviour is explainable, but that doesn’t justify it’: Sherelle Jacobs responds to readers
In my column this week, I argued that Putin is even more dangerous than the West can admit. Telegraph readers were quick to make their thoughts clear. Here, I…