His dying wish

DR ROBERT KRAMER, professor of psychoanalysis at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, explains the drive for immortality that brought war to Ukraine

Already in financial crisis, Turkey is heavily dependent on Russia for fuel, food and tourism money. Is this a tipping point for its president?

We are all Ukrainians... for now. But as fuel costs rise and a drawn-out war looms, how long will the West’s resolve last?

A leading light of contemporary French cinema, Jacques Audiard is now trying to redefine the nouvelle vague aesthetic for a new century

Putin will never subjugate those who, despite their fears, stand up and defend their families, homes and democracy itself

As the West enters a period where any weakness will be weaponised, Britain needs innovation now more than ever

DR ROBERT KRAMER, professor of psychoanalysis at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, explains the drive for immortality that brought war to Ukraine

Absolute power makes you think you can do what you like, where you like, how you like. It is a power no truly democratic leader will ever enjoy

Already in financial crisis, Turkey is heavily dependent on Russia for fuel, food and tourism money. Is this a tipping point for its president?

During the Brexit debate, the very idea was enough to make Leavers foam at the mouth. Now, the case for a joint European military looks very different

Johnson won't get his Churchillian moment from this crisis, nor will he get the chance to return to his mister good times act afterwards

We are all Ukrainians... for now. But as fuel costs rise and a drawn-out war looms, how long will the West’s resolve last?

The same day Putin's invasion began, Karneval was due to start, and it did. But, it soon changed into Germany's largest demonstration for Ukraine so far

A disjointed Conservative party would create future opportunity to rejoin the EU, says one reader

An angry annual conference of the farmers’ union has revealed the depth to which a sector that voted for Brexit and the Tories feels sold out

An intensive care consultant retraces the NHS’s painful journey through Covid – and explains why he is more worried than the Johnson government about what may lie ahead

Neil may have stepped down as its public face, but he still holds 62,458 shares in the company

Cal Flyn's win as The Sunday Times Young Writer of the year may have been helped by the fact that Flyn worked for the paper for five years and that her two books are published by HarperCollins - also owned by Rupert Murdoch

One thinks he's a player, while the other neglects to mention him in their Ukraine coverage

Gina Miller’s QC anticipated that fans of her and her court cases against the government would approve of the production of Bloody Difficult Women, and that those who didn't, would not

Losing the Mail Online's Martin Clarke is a matter of profound regret for his lordship

News from across Europe you might have missed, including reality hitting Italian TV contestants and a surprising find in a mop bucket

The US president's State of the Union address was a bravura performance of ordinariness and common sense

To join Gavin Williamson, who else is deserving of a knighthood? Here are some more ennoblements we should expect to see coming down the red carpet soon...

A leading light of contemporary French cinema, Jacques Audiard is now trying to redefine the nouvelle vague aesthetic for a new century

The Promise has an excellent cast but the plot is subsumed by the standard demands of a detective show

One of the best ways to understand the national psyche is to delve into its rich library of literature

In a reclaimed tobacco warehouse in Umbria once used to squirrel away his favourite paintings, Alberto Burri’s work now reaches out to a wider audience

Designed to produce ephemeral pop stars, Pop Idol produced some acts who have kicked against expectations

A turbulent time in British political history is delivered with composure, wit and a splash of humility

Chelsea’s future is uncertain and manager Thomas Tuchel finds himself asked questions about war and morality instead of tactics and injuries

The water shortage in Extremadura is becoming critical, writes PETER BARRON

Ukrainian cuisine has not been recognised enough in the UK. There is no better time than now

PETER TRUDGILL explains how Catherine the Great’s ‘Greek Project’ led to the naming of Khersón

Few nations can boast a cultural figure so enmeshed with the very essence of their national identity as Taras Shevchenko, writes CHARLIE CONNELLY

With war under way, it is impossible to visit a new exhibition of Francis Bacon's work and not think about humans’ terrible vulnerability in the face of shot and shell