The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution by Dan Hicks hurst The Cold War is essential

The Cold War is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how the tensions of the last century have shaped the modern world

the traditionally Russian-speaking city in Eastern Ukraine where he makes his home

Deeply moving and thoughtful

Tolstaya's characters – seekers all – are daydreaming children

poets such as Osip Mandelstam and Anna Akhmatova continued to defy the censors

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution by Dan Hicks hurst The Cold War is essentialWalk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures depicting the history of the Royal