3 Jun 2026 - 1:01am

Can Putin live to 1,000? Ageing is his Achilles heel

Poppy Sowerby

21.02

The empathy of Joseph Stalin Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator

Boyd Tonkin

14.04

How Hitler killed the Devil In a world without God, the Führer is the ultimate benchmark of morality

Tom Holland

26.10

Older leaders are not always wiser We made fun of the USSR's gerontocracy — but modern America's elites are even older

Daniel Kalder

05.10

The autocrats of the world are uniting Like the old Concert of Europe, the new Dictators' Club has set aside differences to focus on naked power

Christopher Rhodes

13.08

Is this the world’s worst dictator? Turkmen citizens are condemned to live in a repressive police state run by an unsophisticated dullard

Daniel Kalder

15.10

Who are you calling a dictator? When it comes to totalitarian excess, Trump and Boris are mere amateurs

Daniel Kalder