Pushing the boundaries
The map of the world is likely to be redrawn, thanks to the decline of post war Pax Americana, an expansionist Russia and China, and the push for ethnic sovereignty
The death of western cosmopolitanism
A global pandemic has shown how beneficial it is to have a strong nation state
China, America and the Kindleberger Trap
China is filling the void of retreating American influence
The ties that bind
Political unions are not determined by economic realities
Leaving Hong Kong – will China’s loss be Britain’s gain?
It’s Hong Kong’s middle class – not the hyper-wealthy – who may leave. But Britain may not be their preferred option.
Reconsidering the case for ID cards
If tracking Covid-19 requires “immunity passports” then why not as part of an ID card?
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
