C.C. Corn
C.C. Corn is an historian and writer on China and Asia.
In the court of the Mughal emperor
Why remember the embarrassing first steps of a giant?
The long shadow of the Great Helmsman
Frank Dikötter’s China is perpetually over-leveraged, over-producing and overdue a bust
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
Flawed paean to a heartless auteur
A lack of empathy goes to the hollowness at the heart of so many Kubrick movies
The fallacy of “British values”
Nationhood cannot be reduced to abstractions
Is Scottish independence really dead?
Labour’s “more devolution” policy will only strengthen the cause in the long term
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Lefty men’s failures have radicalised women
Don’t pretend that feminists are being “radical” for no reason
The students are revolting
Far too many young people are sheltered from the real world by their university education
Toxic relationship
For a long time, it has seemed that you’re nobody until somebody’s tried to get you cancelled
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
Three cheers for peers of mature years
Removing some of the wisest and most experienced voices in the House would be destructive and wrong