Ukraine Articles

In the 1980s unilateralism almost broke the Labour party. It must never do it again. From Neil Kinnock’s brave denunciation of one-sided disarmament to today’s party policy on retaining Trident, Labour has been on a journey to electoral acceptability. If we ever want...

If the boorishness and ignorance of the Brexit campaign has left you with the world-weary feeling of someone who has seen it all, then cast your gaze over to the Netherlands where imperilling your own country's future is not racy enough a proposition. Instead, this...

The report by the Dutch Safety Board into the Russian BUK missile that brought down flight MH17 provided a brief revival of interest in Ukraine this week. But for those who know and care about this embattled but optimistic country the trend is clear – the Russian...

Arriving at Taras Shevchenko Boulevard in December 2013 I was greeted by a wondrous sight. Kyiv’s remaining statue of Lenin that stood just a few days earlier – and which I had viewed before with a mixture of bafflement and revulsion – had been pulled down and smashed...