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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
Worstall’s Corollary
Rare earths expose a fatal flaw at the heart of industrial strategy: governments intervene in systems they do not remotely understand
