Chip race with China
China’s purchase of Newport Wafer Fab follows a strategy to control high-tech supply chains. Does our Government grasp the danger?
Britain’s online censorship bill
The government’s Online Safety Bill will make us more like the autocracies that propagate disinformation
Novel weapons
Could we be unwittingly researching both sides of a hypersonic arms race?
Covid is a symptom of the Age of China
British statecraft is not protecting us from an emerging autocratic superpower
Is the situation in Ukraine comparable to the siege of Leningrad?
There are more similarities than differences
The brave new world of Swedish education
What is “post-truth” schooling?
Boris will be Boris … again
How to end up a happy ex-prime minister
In Sparta: how Brexit happened
ERG leaders, and Rob Hutton, reflect on how the Tories almost collapsed over MV3
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Works and Piano Sonatas
If you want an entry point to Weinberg, this is it
The food bank of Threadneedle Street
Andrew Bailey and the art of apocalypse banking
Will the real Elena Ferrante please sit down?
It is her words and voice, not her purported identity, that matter to her fans
Ken’s troubles
The modern theatrical world isn’t kind to its older actors
Bad Law Project?
The good, the bad, and the ugly of crowdfunding legal cases
Godunov for me
Ignoring Russian opera — and, in particular, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — is a mistake
No honour among thieves
If Keir is trying to shame Boris by offering to resign, he’s going to be disappointed